One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests.
Salman RushdieHome has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
Salman RushdieThings, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
Salman RushdieThe Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
Salman RushdiePeople would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
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