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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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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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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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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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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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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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optimism is a disease
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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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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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India is my kid sister.
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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