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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.

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