Salman Rushdie quote: Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy ...

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

~ Salman Rushdie ~

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