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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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