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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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India is my kid sister.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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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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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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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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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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