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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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