How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position Quotes

“It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius. Perfect pitch, perfect life, perfect love – these are dead-ends.”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because it was difficult & rare, was more on greeting people?”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

“I do not trust words. No Indian does. Words leave me famished; I eye them with suspicion. Language is, first of all, a weapon. Man became the deadliest of species when he invented language. If dinosaurs had survived until then, wordy Homo Sapiens would have had them as for breakfast! I could give up all words for one significant gesture: the breaking of bread, the offering of a glass of water to a stranger, the sitting down to eat around a cloth, the washing of feet.”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

“Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

“It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius.”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

“All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position