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With death comes honesty.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Honesty
Comes
Death

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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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What can't be cured must be endured.
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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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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane 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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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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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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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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