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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

Salman Rushdie
Long, People
"Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Speech at Columbia University, archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.
Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.