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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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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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Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.
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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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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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What can't be cured must be endured.
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