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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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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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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Is birth always a fall?
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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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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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.
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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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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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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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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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