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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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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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