This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you f… - Salman Rushdie

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This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children · April 8, 1982 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British novelist and essayist. Most of his work is set on the Indian subcontinent.

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Native Name: سلمان رُشدی • سلمان رشدی

Alternative Names: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie • Rushdie • Ahmed Salman Rushdie • Joseph Anton

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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin. - Salman Rushdie

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