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The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

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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