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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. (Salman Rushdie)
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable. View quote
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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. View quote
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world. View quote
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. View quote
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started. View quote
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. View quote
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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. View quote
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. View quote
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it. View quote
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. (Salman Rushdie)
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak. View quote
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated. View quote
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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. View quote
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again. View quote
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. View quote
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. View quote
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. View quote
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards. View quote
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich. View quote
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for. (Salman Rushdie)
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. View quote
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again. View quote
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