Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Salman Rushdie
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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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.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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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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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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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.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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