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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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