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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie

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History
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Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie

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Freedom
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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry
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Fear
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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear. – Reese Witherspoon

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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. – Edvard Munch

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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. – Donald Cargill

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

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