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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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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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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
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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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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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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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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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