'Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven.

And the Prophet said, 'Now we may come into Jahilia,' and they arose and came into the city, and possessed it in the Name of the Most High, the Destroyer of Men.

Us fairies haven't a fucking notion what's going on.

Information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century … Since then we've been living in a fairy-story.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?.

But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

A poet's work … to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

'Martyrdom is a privilege,' she said softly.The history of life was not the bumbling progress – the very English, middle-class progress – Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.Chapter 1, 'The Angel Gibreel' (first sentence).'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'.The part of the story that deals with the 'satanic verses' was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.

The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Satanic Verses (1988) is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Novel the satanic verses