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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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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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