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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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All names mean something.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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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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To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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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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