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“Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.” quote by Manil Suri — Download Open image

““Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.””

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“I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.”

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They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high…

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