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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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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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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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