Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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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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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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India is my kid sister.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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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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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.