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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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India is my kid sister.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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