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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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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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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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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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For me, 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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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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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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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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