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"I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it." — Salman Rushdie
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Change    Writers And Writing   

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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms" — Salman Rushdie
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist" — Salman Rushdie
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"We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs." — Salman Rushdie
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Communism    Ideology   

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"If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind." — Salman Rushdie
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"Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand." — Salman Rushdie
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy." — Salman Rushdie
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Indian Novelist    Power   

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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory." — Salman Rushdie
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Indian Novelist    Politicians   

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"Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, and an indefatigable ally in many struggles." — Salman Rushdie
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"There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same." — Salman Rushdie
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"The Ballad of Lee Cotton." — Salman Rushdie
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"I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?" — Salman Rushdie
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"Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she." — Salman Rushdie
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"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible." — Salman Rushdie
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"Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God." — Salman Rushdie
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"The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges." — Salman Rushdie
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Fiction    Freedom   

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"For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start." — Salman Rushdie
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point." — Salman Rushdie
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it" — Salman Rushdie
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"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry." — Salman Rushdie
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Art    Indian Novelist   

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"Our lives teach us who we are." — Salman Rushdie
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