The real risks for any artist are taken. . . in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it. . .
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Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she.Salman Rushdie
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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