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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've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
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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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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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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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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.
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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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