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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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All names mean something.
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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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For me, 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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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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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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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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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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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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We all owe death a life.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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