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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Lived
Life
Reverse
Judged
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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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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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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