Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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