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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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