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Quotation by Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie (33)Additional Sources
"All-India Radio" Midnight's Children (1981)"Ayesha" The Satanic Verses (1988)"Commonwealth Literature' Does Not Exist" Imaginary Homelands (1991, first published 1983)"Famous satirist" Baal, in "Return to Jahilia" The Satanic Verses (1988)Hamza, in "Mahound" The Satanic Verses (1988)
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian–born British author. "Ayesha," The Satanic Verses (1988).
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