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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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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.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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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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thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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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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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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