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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.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
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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'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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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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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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