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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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