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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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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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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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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.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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