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There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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