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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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