Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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It was because it was easier to blame me, ... You know, 'Why is he rocking the boat' In those days there was a lot of that stuff. He was asking for it. He did it on purpose. He was begging for it. It was just conventional blaming-the-victim stuff. I don't like the term 'victim' when applied to myself. Certainly I felt the guilt burden had shifted from the people doing the violence to the person on the receiving end of the violence.Salman Rushdie
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.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie
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