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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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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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