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Events Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
- The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,…
- I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker
- Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by… — Javier Bardem
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr