Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Quotes

A collection of quotes by Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last .

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British-Indian author born on June 19, 1947, in Mumbai, India. He gained international recognition for his novel "Midnight's Children," which won the Booker Prize in 1981. However, it was his controversial novel "The Satanic Verses" published in 1988 that brought him immense fame and also led to a fatwa being issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Rushdie's work often explores themes of identity, religion, and politics, blending magical realism with historical events. He continues to be a prominent figure in the literary world, writing numerous critically acclaimed novels and essays.

For the barbarians were not only at our gates but within our

For the barbarians were not only at our gates but within our skins. We were our own wooden horses, each one of us full of our own doom. ....these fanatics or those, or crazies or yours; but the explosions burst out of our very own bodies. We were both the bombers and the bombs. The explosions were our own evil - no need to look for foriegn explanations, though there was and is evil beyond our frontiers as well as within. We have chopped away our own legs, we engineered our own fall. And now we can only weep, at the last, for what we were too enfeebled, too corrupt, too little, too contemptable to defend.

Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last

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