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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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All names mean something.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.
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