We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out…

Salman Rushdie
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before w … ▶
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2010). Midnight's Children, p.231, Random House
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