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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
Essayist
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Bombay
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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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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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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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