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I grew up kissing books and bread.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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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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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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