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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

Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
Freedom
Author
Salman Rushdie
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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

Category:
History
Author
Salman Rushdie
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Other Quotes from
History
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

Category:
History

We proceed out of history into history again. – Sidney Alexander

Category:
History

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

Category:
History

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

Category:
History

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