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  1. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.
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  2. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    But it's not as simple as that," he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty {just as speech could be graceless and ugly}; and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. "If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so," he thought, "they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.
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  3. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble'".
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  4. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.'That'll do,' said Haroun.
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  5. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus.
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  6. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    They drove past buses that dripped people the way a sponge drips water, and arrived at a thick forest of human beings, a crowd of people sprouting in all directions like leaves on jungle trees.
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  7. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.
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  8. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    If you want pay, then just be gay.
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  9. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Hey you, long face,' shouted an elderly gent who must have been at least seventy years old, but who was dancing through the flooded, rainy streets, waving a rolled umbrella like a sword. 'Don't you sing those Tragedy Songs round here.
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  10. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Khattam-Shud,' he Said slowly 'is the arch-enemy of all stories, even of language itself. He is the prince of silence and the foe of speech. And because everything ends, because dreams ens, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. 'It is finished,' we tell one another, 'it's over, Khattam-Shud; the end.
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  11. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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  12. Salman Rushdie _ Haroun and the Sea of Stories

    Peace broke out.
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