A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman RushdieThe only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.
Salman Rushdie[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]
Salman RushdieIf Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.
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