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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

Salman Rushdie
Dream, Struggle, Home
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie
Freedom, Struggle, Doe
Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

Salman Rushdie
Struggle, Order, Literature

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