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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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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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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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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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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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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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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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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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