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Quotes from Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie

born 1947 India

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I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.

Midnight's Children (1981)

Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me.

Midnight's Children (1981)

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Midnight's Children (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Salman Rushdie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.