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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Born: Jun 19, 1947
Life Me People Think World You
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. Salman Rushdie
Consider States UK East Blair Policies Friend Middle Middle East United United States Fatal Tony
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. Salman Rushdie
Great First Imagination Great Artist Weak Distinguishes Tenderness Industry Artist Sensibility Second Third
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. Salman Rushdie
You Citizen Become National Think I Think Distinction City Feel New Like Real American Yorker New Yorker Even
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. Salman Rushdie
Alone Time Myself Me Writing First Think Typewriter I Think Indian London Could Part Indulge Longs First Time Verses Loves English Whole Bombay
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. Salman Rushdie
Good History You Good And Evil People Will Evil Understanding Before Find Religions Invented Only Individual Take Idea Look Always Were Existed Order Afterwards Express
I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world. Salman Rushdie
Good Change Happy World School Must See Some Spirit No Reason Adventure Suppose Been Very Wanting Anything Reason Bombay
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards. Salman Rushdie
College Always Itch Afterwards Acting Even
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them. Salman Rushdie
You Hurt People Sometimes Perception Feelings Become Think I Think Say About More Like Get Any Human Famous Human Beings Public Them Act Beings
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.' Salman Rushdie
You People Country Saw Muslim Answer Were Bangladesh Oh Happened Pakistan Now Secession
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich. Salman Rushdie
Become Rich Drama Very Form
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day. Salman Rushdie
Day Pressure Living Think Say Day-To-Day Know Period How Intense Literally Act Sanity
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable. Salman Rushdie
News Me You Valuable Long Before Think Twitter Speed I Think Out Find About Like Information Which Really Thing Things
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. Salman Rushdie
You Book Offended Easy Very Just Shut
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. Salman Rushdie
Today Creative Tomorrow Will Free Worries He Still Artist Then Creative Artist
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. Salman Rushdie
Friendship Family Important Someone Make Always Been Friendships Elective Inherit Whom
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. Salman Rushdie
Way Given Island Frontiers Sea England Lucky
We are the storytelling animal. Salman Rushdie
Animal Storytelling
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow. Salman Rushdie
Time You People Dance Country Every Cold Every Time Sight Would Would-Be India Indian Indians Entranced Hot Look Because Go Exotic Snow Wanted Place Movies Kashmir Number
American literature has always been immigrant. Salman Rushdie
Immigrant Always Been American Literature American Literature
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
Fight Natural World Try Own Politicians Both Writers Rivals Make Territory Same Groups Images
I will come back to India - so deal with it. Salman Rushdie
Will Back India Come Deal
My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. Salman Rushdie
Small She Very Quite Fierce Grandmother Wide
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. Salman Rushdie
Me You Writing Big Islam Radical Say About Seem Had Know Deal Big Deal Verses Asked Much Radical Islam Now Phenomenon Recently
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. Salman Rushdie
Beautiful You People World Seen Big Mountains Too Valley Miniature Something Small Fact Never True Countryside Surrounded Very Just Anywhere Kashmir Spectacular
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things. Salman Rushdie
Terrorism Fight Both Tougher Like Look West Hand Friend Revolutionaries Trying Middle Ends Against Should Pakistan Play Things
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English. Salman Rushdie
Both Mothers Were Children English
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