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Book: Midnight's Children
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into her - because Reverend Mother doled out the curries and meatballs of intransigence, dishes imbued with the personality of their creator; Amina ate the fish salans of stubbornness and the birianis of determination. And, although Mary's pickles had a partially counteractive effect - since she had stirred into them the guilt of her heart, and the fear of discovery, so that, good as they tasted, they had the power of making those who ate them subject to nameless uncertainties and dreams of accusing fingers - the diet provided by Reverend Mother filled Amina with a kind of rage, and even produced slight signs of improvements in her defeated husband.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
When you have things, then there is time to dream; when you don't, you fight.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
the children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good."
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
او از نسلی از بچه‌های جادویی بود که بسیار سخت‌تر از نسل اول خواهد شد، بچه‌هایی که سرنوشتشان را از پیشگویان و اختر شناسان نخواهند پرسید، بلکه آن را در کوره سهمگین اراده خود شکل خواهند داد.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll;
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
Things-even people-have a way of leaking into each other," I explain, "like flavors when you cook.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I- even I-had dreamed.
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors {Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business}, where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar {you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment} contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come
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Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children
Even if Shaheed had been able to hear me, I could not then have told him what I later became convinced was the truth: that the purpose of that entire war had been to reunite me with an old life, to bring me back together with my old friends. Sam Manekshaw was marching on Dacca, to meet his old friend the Tiger; and the modes of connection lingered on, because on the field of leaking bone-marrow I heard about the exploits of knees, and was greeted by a dying pyramid of heads; and in Dacca I was to meet Parvati-the-witch.
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