'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It becam…

Salman Rushdie
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2012). Joseph Anton, p.115, Random House
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Is birth always a fall? ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1990). In good faith, Penguin (Non-Classics)
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time. ✨ Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists. Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingt … ▶
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2012). Joseph Anton, p.115, Random House

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