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The Thing That Always Attracted Me To New York Was The Sense Of Being In A Place Where A Lot Of People Had A Lot Of Stories Not Unlike Mine,' Rushdie Says. 'everybody Comes From Somewhere Else. Everyone's Got A Polish Grandmother, Some Kind Of Metamorphosis In Their Family Circumstances. That's A Very Big Thing - The Experience Of Not Living Where You Started.

Books Choose Their Authors; The Act Of Creation Is Not Entirely A Rational And Conscious One.

There Are Things You Break That Can't Be Put Back Together Again. And Kashmir May Be One Of Them.

After A Long, Hopeless War, People Will Settle For Peace, At Almost Any Price.