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Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses. -- Salman Rushdie
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. -- Salman Rushdie
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. -- Orson Scott Card
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it. -- Maurice Cowling
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. -- Salman Rushdie
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. -- Salman Rushdie
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses. -- Layzie Bone
The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. -- Salman Rushdie
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. -- Susan Rice

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