Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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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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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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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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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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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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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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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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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.