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Going Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels…
- A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to…
- I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of…
- I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
- Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's…
- Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with…
- Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the…
- I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
- Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to…
- This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and…
- We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about…
- In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle…
More Going Quotes
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. — Julian Assange
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong