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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers. . .

Source: Is Nothing Sacred? Herbert Reade Memorial Lecture, 6 Feb 1990.
-- Salman Rushdie, (Jun 19 1947-____), Indian-English novelist; His novel, The Satanic Verses, enraged Moslems, branded an enemy of Islam, and forced him into hiding.

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