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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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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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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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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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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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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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