"The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever."

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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.

— Salman Rushdie