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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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