Salman Rushdie
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What?
How dare you, sir?
You see, and then if you go down that road, then we can't talk to each other anymore.
I think what's happened is the temperature has got risen.
Right.
I mean, yes, of course, people have always disagreed and people have always said, you can't say that, you've got to say this.
That's not new.
What's new is the volume and the heat.
Right.
And so what do we do about taking down the volume and taking down the heat?
Well, it did certainly have an impact.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, what is sad is that I'd actually got my life back, really.
I mean, I've been living in New York City for getting on for 25 years.
And for 23 years, it was fine.
You know, I mean, I, you know, I mean, I was doing everything that writers do.
Book tours, readings, lectures, you know.
Oh, I know.
I'm a writer.