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Hari Kunzru has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…
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Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
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Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it…
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became…
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times,…
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that…
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to…
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained…
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive…
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go…
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Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of…
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
— Foxy Brown
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the…
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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places…
— John Lennon
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Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,
— Dennis Rodman
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