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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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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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And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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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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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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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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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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