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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
— Salman Rushdie
Tags: fool, yourself, you, art

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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
— Salman Rushdie
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
— Salman Rushdie
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
— Salman Rushdie
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
— Salman Rushdie
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
— Salman Rushdie
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