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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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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.
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Salman Rushdie
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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