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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Are You Forgiving of Unhappiness?

There was a false self that had a lot of, that was floating around. The litany of names of people who would behave badly and set stupid things at best in the- Yeah, I mean, I remember some of them. My mother used to say that her way of dealing with unhappiness was to forget it. She said, some people have a memory. Do you? And I think as I get older, I'm beginning to develop that.

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