What did Salman Rushdie mean by: Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? - Salman Rushdie Author · India Copy
+ Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. Feraz Zeid, October 20, 2023December 26, 2023, Salman Rushdie, Language, Tongue, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ Why speak if you can’t manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, Closure, Perfect, Speak, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, Cry, Poor, Powerful, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, Century, Doubt, Human, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, Bullets, Stones, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, Animal, Stories, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Salman Rushdie, Discovery, Fun, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
+ If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Salman Rushdie, 0 - Salman Rushdie Author · India
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
