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> [In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/in-writing-the-satanic-verses-i-think-i-was-writing-for-the-first/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-i-was-writing-the-satanic-verses-if-you-had-asked-me-about-the/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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