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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Novelist
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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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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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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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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Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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