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Salman Rushdie

"Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions."

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"Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions."

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Donna Grant

"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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Donna Grant

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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Donna Grant

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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Donna Grant

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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Donna Grant

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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Donna Grant

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

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"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."

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Donna Grant

"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."

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Donna Grant

"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."

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Donna Grant

"When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness."

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Salman Rushdie
"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."

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Salman Rushdie
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

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Salman Rushdie
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

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Salman Rushdie
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

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Salman Rushdie
"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."

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Salman Rushdie
"Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy."

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Salman Rushdie
"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."

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Salman Rushdie
"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

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Salman Rushdie
"For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy."

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Salman Rushdie
"So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.The problem's name is God."

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