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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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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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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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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.
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With death comes honesty.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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