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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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.
Salman Rushdie
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
Home is the place where you feel happy.
Salman Rushdie
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
Salman Rushdie
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
Salman Rushdie
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
Salman Rushdie
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Salman Rushdie
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
Salman Rushdie
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
Salman Rushdie
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
Salman Rushdie
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie
I grew up kissing books and bread.
Salman Rushdie
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
Salman Rushdie
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Salman Rushdie