“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Source: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
“The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill.”
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
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