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Salman Rushdie

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."

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"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."

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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."

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"To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion."

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"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."

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"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."

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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."

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"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart."
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"Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days."
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"Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths."
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"I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
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"As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."
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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."
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"A book is not completed till it's read."
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"Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace."
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