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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Born: Jun 19, 1947
Life Me People Think World You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them. Salman Rushdie
Women Men Out Seduce Like Because Friendly Trying Hanging Just Being Them Many Start
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. Salman Rushdie
Me World Listening Alien Made Other Others Side Elvis Kid Relevant Seemed Driver Truck Truck Driver Feel Noises Mississippi Always Up Radio Fascinated Growing Growing Up Bombay
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks. Salman Rushdie
Hate First Defends Klan Remarks Allowed Poisonous First Amendment Like Amendment Which Forms Groups Including Why Utter Speech
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. Salman Rushdie
Art You Writing Painting Religious Sacred Know Began Mean
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. Salman Rushdie
Life Myself Revenge Remember Old Rest Hatred My Life Become Corner Telling Embittered Carry Scared Some Hack Know Although Around His Trunk Getting Storage Where Want Creature
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini. Salman Rushdie
Good Khomeini Worse Bad Would Would-Be Only Bad Review Review Than The Only Thing Thing
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. Salman Rushdie
World Islam Project Those Muslim Paranoid Blames Rival Proposed Remedy Outsider Version Closing Which Modernity Ills Growing Whose Societies Fastest
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes. Salman Rushdie
Work Time Myself Me Relationship You Communication Try Father Long Important Mistakes Making Mistakes Through Open Sons Between Perhaps Make Because Making Least Been Lines Very Different Avoid Keep
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot. Salman Rushdie
About Something Written Obviously Lot Done Story Planet Migration Whole
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. Salman Rushdie
Life Something Smaller Became Insult Uglier Denied Verses Ordinary Ordinary Life Novel
Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you. Salman Rushdie
You Experience Security Purpose Through Had Checks Annoy Make Safer Knows American Going Just Anyone Who
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given. Salman Rushdie
Work Great First Difficulty Films Has-Been Given Had Instance Attempts Like Also Reader Without Were Been Very Any Getting Refused Being Literature China Chinese Little Reason Ever Published Two
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with. Salman Rushdie
Christian Christianity About Idea Along Still Go Might Coalition Many Even Christians
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Salman Rushdie
Conflict Fear Fall Between Falling Vertigo Desire
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. Salman Rushdie
Family Me Doctor Mother Father Met Unlike Say Would Indian Religious He Wisest Very Person Lama Grandfather Ever Deeply Dalai Dalai Lama
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. Salman Rushdie
Muslim Allen He Dead Were Woody Woody Allen Now
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history. Salman Rushdie
History Corruption Example Other Incredible Those Indian Betrayal Potential Through For Example Optimism Maybe Just Place Whole Things Two
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. Salman Rushdie
Health Survival High Mental Never Had Friends Very Owe Regard Loved Loved Ones Therapists
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. Salman Rushdie
Best Nothing Think I Think Say Critics About Know Literary
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. Salman Rushdie
Before Favorite I Came Both Devour Came Were Authors Agatha Christie Used England
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. Salman Rushdie
Character You Men Before Unlike Mad Mad Men Entire Writes Matthew Shooting Story Then Novel Series Start
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. Salman Rushdie
Character Indian Write Never Which Central Novel
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. Salman Rushdie
Man Old Plants Insects Somewhere Mountains Believe Living Border Cave Wandering Old Man Us Many Bin Image
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. Salman Rushdie
Long Fuss Security Would About Cost Nobody Dead Were Whether Then Special England Treatment
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel. Salman Rushdie
Me Understanding Doors Think Imagination Others Way See Above Mysterious Feel Opened Literature Which Decisive
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. Salman Rushdie
You Poet Somewhere Isolation Else Melancholy Somewhere Else Wishing Chekhov Were Than Where
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