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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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More quotes by Salman Rushdie
Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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Is birth always a fall?
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
Salman Rushdie
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Salman Rushdie
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
Salman Rushdie
Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
Salman Rushdie
thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
Salman Rushdie
When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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We all owe death a life.
Salman Rushdie
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
Salman Rushdie
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
Salman Rushdie
I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
Salman Rushdie
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Salman Rushdie