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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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