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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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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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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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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
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The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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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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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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