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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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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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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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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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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.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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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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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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