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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
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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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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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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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.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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