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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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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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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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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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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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