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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

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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History
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Salman Rushdie
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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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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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Future
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The worlds battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. – Henry Ward Beecher

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History

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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History

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. – Fareed Zakaria

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History

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. Theres so much more to the story. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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History

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being said. – Peter Drucker

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? – Jamie Foxx

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb

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