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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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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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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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