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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.
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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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Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.
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I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
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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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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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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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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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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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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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