What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
("Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line and taken up their lethal rucksacks, ... The deeper alienations that lead to terrorism may have their roots in these young men's objections to events in Iraq or elsewhere, but the closed communities of some traditional Western Muslims are places in which young men's alienations can easily deepen.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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