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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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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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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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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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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.
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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.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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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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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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