Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.
Salman RushdieThere's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
Salman RushdieI am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Salman RushdieLiterature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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