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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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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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