I always thought storytelling was like juggling [. . . ] You keep a lot of different tales … - Salman Rushdie

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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Salman Rushdie

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [. . . ] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

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The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

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I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

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