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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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For every snake, there is a ladder for every ladder,a snake
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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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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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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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