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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?
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Peace broke out.
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I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
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I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots.
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If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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Naught but love makes magic real.
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This is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too.
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No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.
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It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.
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The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't ... You'll fight.
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Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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I grew up kissing books and bread,
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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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My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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Originality is dangerous.
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If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
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You observe ... that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
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They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus.
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So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages ...
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Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.
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After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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adamant. 'They would be the wrong publishers for you.' Later, after
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A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.
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I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
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Life again refused to remain lifesized
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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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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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Is birth always a fall?
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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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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs.
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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but something was given in exchange for what was lost
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To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.
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Montgomery Clift in I Confess?
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Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.
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Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.
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To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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The problem's name is God.
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The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
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A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
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Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.
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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
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Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
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