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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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