Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to — Salman Rushdie
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Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

— Salman Rushdie
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