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I grew up kissing books and bread.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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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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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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We all owe death a life.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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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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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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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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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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