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This line reads as dry, defiant wit about not letting one painful experience define the rest of life. It can be taken to mean that divorce has not closed the door on marriage or on hope, and that disappointment does not have to become a rule. It lands when someone is deciding to try again after a difficult breakup or public loss.
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About Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British and American novelist
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. He is known for fiction that blends magical realism with historical elements, and for writing about movement, rupture, and exchange between Eastern and Western worlds. His novels are often set on the Indian subcontinent and frequently center Indian characters or family life. Midnight's Children, his second novel, won the Booker Prize in 1981, and later it was selected twice as the best of all Booker winners, for the prize's 25th and 40th anniversaries.
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Books by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
1995
The Satanic Verses
1989
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
1991
The Moor's Last Sigh
1996
Fury
2002