Salman Rushdie Quotes

This Was My Mother's Chosen Disciplinary Method: Unable To Strike Us, She Ordered Us To Seal Our Lips. Some Echo, No Doubt, Of The Great Silence With Which Her Own Mother Had Tormented Aadam Aziz Lingered In Her Ears - Because Silence, Too, Has An Echo, Hollower And Longer-lasting Than The Reverberations Of Any Sound - And With An Emphatic "Chup!" She Would Place A Finger Across Her Lips And Command Our Tongues To Be Still.

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