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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.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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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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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
Salman Rushdie
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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