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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
– Salman Rushdie

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  2. Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. – Salman Rushdie
  4. human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions – Salman Rushdie
  5. You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail. – Salman Rushdie
  6. Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive. – Salman Rushdie
  7. There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest. – NRN
  8. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie
  9. When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. – Salman Rushdie
  10. Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. – Salman Rushdie
  11. Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims. – Salman Rushdie
  12. How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized. – Salman Rushdie
  13. The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen. – Salman Rushdie
  14. But great tragedy is universal – Salman Rushdie
  15. The alphabet is where all our secrets begin. – Salman Rushdie
  16. If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one. – Salman Rushdie
  17. A book is not completed till it’s read. – Salman Rushdie
  18. A man who catches History’s eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. – Salman Rushdie
  19. History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it. – Salman Rushdie
  20. This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike. – Salman Rushdie
  21. It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out. – Salman Rushdie
  22. I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one’s poor parents. – Salman Rushdie
  23. Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie
  24. There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost. – Salman Rushdie
  25. …that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough. – Salman Rushdie
  26. What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for? – Salman Rushdie
  27. The self was both its origins and its journey. – Salman Rushdie
  28. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. – Salman Rushdie
  29. One minute you’ve got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it’s done a bunk. – Salman Rushdie
  30. Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. – Salman Rushdie
  31. A little thinking is a dangerous thing. – Salman Rushdie
  32. The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors. – Salman Rushdie
  33. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie
  34. Don’t let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying – Salman Rushdie
  35. A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time’s records before long. – Salman Rushdie
  36. Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. – Salman Rushdie
  37. She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . . – Salman Rushdie
  38. What kind of God is it who’s upset by a cartoon in Da – Salman Rushdie
  39. The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world. – Iben Dissing Sandahl
  40. She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter. – Erica Bauermeister

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