A Quote by Salman Rushdie

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

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Frances Hardinge

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Naomi Alderman

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Helene Cixous

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

Gary Zukav

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.