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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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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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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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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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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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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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