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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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