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This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

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

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  2. human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions – Salman Rushdie
  3. Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. – Salman Rushdie
  4. 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
  5. My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race. – Donald L Hicks
  6. If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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  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
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  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. You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail. – Salman Rushdie
  14. The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen. – Salman Rushdie
  15. But great tragedy is universal – Salman Rushdie
  16. The alphabet is where all our secrets begin. – Salman Rushdie
  17. If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one. – Salman Rushdie
  18. A book is not completed till it’s read. – Salman Rushdie
  19. A man who catches History’s eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. – Salman Rushdie
  20. History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it. – 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. Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive. – Salman Rushdie
  26. 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
  27. …that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough. – Salman Rushdie
  28. What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for? – Salman Rushdie
  29. The self was both its origins and its journey. – Salman Rushdie
  30. One minute you’ve got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it’s done a bunk. – Salman Rushdie
  31. Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. – Salman Rushdie
  32. A little thinking is a dangerous thing. – Salman Rushdie
  33. The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors. – Salman Rushdie
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  36. The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. – 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
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  39. You curse a lot.”???? you – I hardly curse at all. – Tere Michaels
  40. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound

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