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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
Salman Rushdie
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.
Salman Rushdie
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Salman Rushdie
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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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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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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What can't be cured must be endured.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
Salman Rushdie
When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
Salman Rushdie
You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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