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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Surprise Behave Like Huge Bigots

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.'

Life God Yourself Me Think Pride

Nothing is unfilmable.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Relationship Children Perspective You

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Family Darkness Conflict Doors High

I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

Family Father Mother Me Doctor Say

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

Me Divorce You Teach Tell Get

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Failure Child Parent Prejudice See

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Man Rich House Born Built He

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.

Influence Dark India Never Rising

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.'

Crazy Said Terrorism Been Like Even

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

Deep Run Resentment West Muslim

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