In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of celebrating uniqueness and individuality in society.
Salman Rushdie's quote reflects on how cultures and societies often recognize and honor those who deviate from the norm—the 'nonbelongers' and 'freaks'. These individuals often serve as sources of inspiration and creativity, contributing to the richness of myths, arts, and music, thus highlighting the value of diversity in shaping our collective identity and expression.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of diversity in creative fields.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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