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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
Salman Rushdie
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
Salman Rushdie
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
Salman Rushdie
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
Salman Rushdie
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Salman Rushdie
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Salman Rushdie
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
Salman Rushdie
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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
I'm definitely post-something.
Salman Rushdie
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
Salman Rushdie
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
Salman Rushdie
Home is the place where you feel happy.
Salman Rushdie
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
Salman Rushdie
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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