To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? - Salman Rushdie

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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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About Salman Rushdie

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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Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.
Shalimar the Clown · October 10, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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