Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first u…

Salman Rushdie
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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