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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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