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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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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 have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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