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Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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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.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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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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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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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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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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