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Quote by Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

Other quotes by Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie

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History
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Salman Rushdie
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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Change
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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. – Irving R. Kaufman

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History

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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History

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

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History

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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History

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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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