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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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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
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