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Salman Rushdie

Indian Novelist

Born: Jun 19, 1947

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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Salman Rushdie

Relationship Woman Real Preferable Imaginary

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing. Salman Rushdie

You People Bad Bad Thing Like Ideas Because Thing

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict. Salman Rushdie

Game Addict Complete Say Some After Game Of Thrones Initial Now Resistance

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. Salman Rushdie

Work Way Writers Gets Interesting Your Lives

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' Salman Rushdie

Me People Fear Live Society Drawing Tell Memoirs Someone Write Allowed Him Up Accounts Stop Afraid Story Which Asked

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way. Salman Rushdie

Life Time Great History World Islam Enormous Way Possible Arabia Religions Inside Record Born About Recorded Only Prophet Factual Scholarly Look Unusual Conditions Historical Which Social Social Conditions Origin Amount

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously. Salman Rushdie

Work Hope Best You Try Think Say I Can I See Out See Best Work I Hope That Put Most Obviously Well Make How Truthful Representative Literature Then Gamble Things

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated. Salman Rushdie

Must Glamour Underestimated Forbidden Being

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it. Salman Rushdie

Religion Thinking Way Another Another Way Answer Being

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. Salman Rushdie

Art You Change Culture Women People Will Think Too About Make Shift Shifts Social Social Change Ask Differently

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. Salman Rushdie

Work Free Free Speech Down Side Come Obvious Anybody Speech

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. Salman Rushdie

Life Me You Together Conflict Writing World Sometimes My Life Accidents Difficulty Harmoniously Everywhere Ability Brought About Given Both Write Make Parts End Up Different Stories Which Different Parts Nowhere

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. Salman Rushdie

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