Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Out of that dark, unstitched wound, that sink of abominations, that craddle of black-thronged cities where the music of ideas is drowned in cold…

— Henry Miller

“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are…

— Arvydas Šliogeris

“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the…

— James Howard Kunstler

“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned.…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“We became lazy, she said. For eight years we persuaded ourselves that the progressive, tolerant, adult America embodied by the president was what America…

— Salman Rushdie

“Damaged people wear masks. They're like the burglars who wear them while robbing banks. It's just that they wear a mask of smile, rob…

— Sameer Khan

“Your darkest moment rips off every mask. It makes you see the world for what it really is. And people, for who they truly…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It's about deception - about the masks we wear as faces, and the faces we wear as masks.”

— Tanith Morse

“We call it hypocrisy, but it is schizophrenia, a modest ranch-house life with Draconian military adventures; a land of equal opportunity where a white…

— Norman Mailer

“A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.”

— Victor Hugo

“Without a mask to shape us, what would we face anyone with?”

— David David Katzman

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and…

— Kurt Vonnegut