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Home is the place where you feel happy.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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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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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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India is my kid sister.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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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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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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