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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading acts too much it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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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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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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