Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)

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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 end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

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A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

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Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

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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 awhile.

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No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

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Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old—it is the new combinations that make them new.

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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

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