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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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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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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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