Salman Rushdie Quotes
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
