Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Interpretation
Our lives and experiences are interconnected, blending into a shared narrative.
In this quote, Salman Rushdie reflects on the profound interconnectedness of human lives. He suggests that our individual stories and experiences merge with those of others, creating a collective narrative that transcends our personal identities, highlighting the importance of community and shared experiences in shaping our lives.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of community, one could use this quote to emphasize how our lives are intertwined.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt between us gender failures.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
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