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  1. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    ...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight...
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  2. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
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  3. Salman Rushdie _ The Enchantress of Florence

    He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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  4. Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children

    Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
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