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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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More quotes by Salman Rushdie
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
Salman Rushdie
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Salman Rushdie
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
Salman Rushdie
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
Salman Rushdie
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
Salman Rushdie
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Salman Rushdie
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman Rushdie
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
Salman Rushdie
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
Salman Rushdie
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
Salman Rushdie
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
Salman Rushdie
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
Salman Rushdie
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
Salman Rushdie