In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from…

Salman Rushdie
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2011). Shame, p.124, Random House
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women. ✨ Rushdie backs Straw in row over Muslim veils by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2006.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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