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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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