Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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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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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
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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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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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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 do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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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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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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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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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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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 seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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India is my kid sister.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.