Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturb…

Salman Rushdie
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic … ▶
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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