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The thing I really like about...

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.

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One of the things I do take s...

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

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It is very, very easy not to ...

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

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If there were Israeli attacks...

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

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The only way to find out why ...

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the...

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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In this world without quiet c...

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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When you are making an indepe...

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

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If you actually want to chang...

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

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The accidents of my life have...

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.

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What happened in Pakistan was...

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.'

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It's so disappointing, to put...

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

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Perhaps because my relationsh...

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.

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A novel, I think, is partly a...

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

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Original thought, original ar...

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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I've never rejected the world...

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

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When thought becomes excessiv...

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

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When 'Midnight's Children' ca...

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

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India is my kid sister. ...

India is my kid sister.

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Have you noticed the physical...

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

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