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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.Salman Rushdie
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Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptionsSalman Rushdie
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.Salman Rushdie
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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
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Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.Salman Rushdie