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• There are few things more overwhelming than love in hostile territory.

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• Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

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• Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.

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• Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.

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• A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.

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• Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can’t communicate anything meaningful.

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• There is infinite space within a human life.

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• He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

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• Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

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• If man’s capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might be very different.

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• Wonder and awe have gone out of your religions. You are prepared to accept the irrational, but not the transcendent.

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• Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

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G. Willow Wilson (12)

Birth:	31st August, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Gwendolyn Willow Wilson was born in New Jersey, USA. She is an American comics writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist. She has written several novels include: Alif the Unseen and Cairo. Her comic series Air was nominated for the Eisner Award, and her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award. Wilson is herself Muslim, and writes Ms. Marvel, a comic series starring a 16-year-old Muslim shapeshifter superhero named Kamala Khan. Her articles about modern religion and the Middle East have appeared in publications including the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and the Canada National Post.

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