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

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie

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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixons tapes. – Bob Woodward

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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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[H]istory gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions. – Hajo Holborn, History and the Humanities

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Im trying to make a case for those people who dont have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. – Billy Bragg

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