Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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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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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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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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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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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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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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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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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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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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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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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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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'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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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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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 is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.