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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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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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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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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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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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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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