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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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We all owe death a life.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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