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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie

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Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading acts too much it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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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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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 you're offended, it's your problem.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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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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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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