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Is birth always a fall?
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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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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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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