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American literature has always been immigrant.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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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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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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