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We are the storytelling animal.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
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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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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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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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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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