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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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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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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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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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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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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'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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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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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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I'm definitely post-something.
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