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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
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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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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Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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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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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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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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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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