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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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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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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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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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