Quotes by Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

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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 fo — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractu — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old f — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humani — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991