The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.
— Salman Rushdie Contemporary

Satanic Verses, magical realism

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From 'Imaginary Homelands'

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1991

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/18426-imaginary-homelands-essays-and-criti…

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