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I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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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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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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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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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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