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«A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.»
«Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
ball game, Ball games, free speech, whole thing
«The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it /when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.»
«The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.»
«Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury ? sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ? drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise ? the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation.»
«Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
defense mechanism, frightens, Music of, rock and, rock and roll, Rock and roll music, rock music, roll, unleash, unleashed, unleashes, Unleashing
«In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
corners, escapes, fuss, fussed, fussing, hullabaloo, unquiet
«I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.»
«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.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apostles, claimed, explanation, havoc, Human history, mixed, Mixed Up, purity, The Apostle, The Apostles, throughout, wrought
«We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.»
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