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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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