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India is my kid sister.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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