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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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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.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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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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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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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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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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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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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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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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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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