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Salman Rushdie

"Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?"

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"Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?"

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"This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone."
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"Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch."
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"It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions."
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"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
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