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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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