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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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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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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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