"The problem of telling contemporary history is that……" — Salman Rushdie
"The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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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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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
— Bono
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
— Geraldine Brooks
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary…
— Joseph Campbell
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
— Francesca Annis
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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