"The field of the novel is very rich.……" — Salman Rushdie
"The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
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This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical…
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Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women,…
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A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.
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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
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I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the…
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