Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
Salman Rushdie
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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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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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.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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