Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
…those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we …
…those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we …
Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings. It is the key to ending deep inequality. We stigmatize and send to the margins people who …
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same …
And he came to understand that the burial of the broken wasn’t eccentric — this was what people did every day, stuffing their brokenness down, pushing it down, smoothing the …
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like …
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of …
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. …
Outsider music is, like outsider art, made by people who are self taught and don’t try to fit in with the mainstream. Meet My Robot Friend, quirky and clever. You …
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known …
We read everyday of outsiders who become violent. Here is the story of an outsider who found another way: art. When Henry Darger passed away in 1973 at the age …