What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the pri…

Salman Rushdie
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. ✨ Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton. Interview with Stuart … ▶
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, lik … ▶
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil. ✨ R … ▶
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

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