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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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