The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it require…

Salman Rushdie
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. ✨ Midnight's Children. Book by Salman Rushdie, September 7, 2010.
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it. ✨ Outside The Whale by Salman Rushdie, granta.com. March 1, 1984.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. ✨ Literary Feuds of 2012 by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. December 30, 2012.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' ✨ On Censorship by Salman Rushdie, www.newyorker.com. May 1 … ▶
To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile ag … ▶

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

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