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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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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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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.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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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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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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