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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
Yes, I know there is a fashion nowadays for these Hitler's-valet type memoirs, and many people are against, they say we should not humanise the inhuman. But the point is they are not inhuman, these Mainduck-style little Hitlers, and it is in their humanity that we must locate our collective guilt, humanity's guilt for human beings' misdeeds; for if they are just monsters - if it is just a question of King Kong and Godzilla wreaking havoc until the aeroplanes bring them down - then the rest of us are excused.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simplytoo weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
...the true direction of her heart: that is to say, inwards, to the reality of dreams.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
BOMBAY WAS CENTRAL, had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it was the South. To the east lay India's East and to the west, the world's West. Bombay was central; all rivers flowed into its human sea. It was an ocean of stories; we were all its narrators, and everybody talked at once.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against fear, the engendering of that tawdry despot's fall, has more or less nothing to do with 'courage'. It is driven by something much more straightforward: the simple need to get on with your life.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
Confusion to our enemies!
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Salman Rushdie _ The Moor's Last Sigh
I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix.
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