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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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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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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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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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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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