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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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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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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
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