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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
~ Salman Rushdie
Author
Book
Fabulous
Nobody
Page
Read
Throughout
Wants
Which
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
~ Salman Rushdie
Like
Music
Normally
Playing
Read
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Nothing is unfilmable.
~ Salman Rushdie
Nothing
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
~ Salman Rushdie
Defend
Defending
Disgusting
Find
Free
Free Speech
Often
One Of The Problems
Outrageous
People
Problems
Speech
Unpleasant
You
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
~ Salman Rushdie
Admirer
Arab
Case
Century
Father
He
His
Interpreting
Known
Koran
Making
Name
Philosopher
Reasons
Time
West
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Authoritarian
Glare
Like
Negative
Publicity
Regimes
Strange
Strange Things
Things
Violent
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Article
Being
Books
Except
Front
God
Had
Happened
Knew
Life
Me
My Life
Never
Nothing
Oh
Oh My God
One Of The Things
Pride
Read
Say
Sequence
Set
Some
Something
Take
Terrible
Things
Think
Those
Were
Would
Writer
You
Yourself
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
~ Salman Rushdie
Being
Children
Depend
Friends
Got
I Love
Know
Learnt
Life
Love
Make
Nice
Nice Life
One Of The Things
Things
Woman
Wonderful
Work
You
Your
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Centre
Children
Experience
Family
Indian
Midnight
Muslim
Novel
One Of The Things
Puts
Things
Thought
Which
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
~ Salman Rushdie
Artistic
Artistic Expression
Expression
Iconoclastic
Irreverent
Nature
Original
Questioning
Thought
Very
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Originality is dangerous.
~ Salman Rushdie
Dangerous
Originality
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
~ Salman Rushdie
Anti-American
Been
Case
Crazy
Deceased
Dismissed
Edward
Even
Extremists
Intellectuals
Like
Mr
Often
Palestinian
Said
Terrorism
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Afghanistan
Between
Client
Countries
Dark
Fears
Hostile
India
Indian
Influence
Never
Pakistan
Paranoia
Rising
Should
State
Supposed
Taliban
Thus
Two
Underestimated
Would
Would-Be
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
~ Salman Rushdie
Always
Beach
Books
Me
People
Reading
Seen
Subway
Telling
Whenever
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
~ Salman Rushdie
Against
Because
Cannot
Done
Ideas
Must
Otherwise
People
Person
Prejudice
Protected
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
~ Salman Rushdie
Avoid
Because
Been
Between
Communication
Different
Father
Important
Keep
Least
Lines
Long
Make
Making
Making Mistakes
Me
Mistakes
Myself
Open
Perhaps
Relationship
Sons
Through
Time
Try
Very
Work
You
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
~ Salman Rushdie
Kid
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
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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.
~ Salman Rushdie
Because
Celebrated
Content
Extremists
Journey
Local
Long
Long Journey
Mumbai
Novel
Off
Pulled
University
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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.
~ Salman Rushdie
Art
Back
Better
Censor
Create
Decide
Did
Fool
Going
Hold
Kept
Lie
Literary
Mouth
Self-Censorship
Seriously
Shut
Speak
Then
Trying
Would
Would-Be
You
Your
Yourself
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
~ Salman Rushdie
Accounts
Afraid
Allowed
Asked
Drawing
Fear
Him
Live
Me
Memoirs
People
Society
Someone
Stop
Story
Tell
Up
Which
Write
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