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Pankaj Mishra Quotes

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Pankaj Mishra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1969

Topics

War Communism World Cold Moral

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Ani DiFranco

Reality You Reinvent Anything Order

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Jeff Goodell

Work Environmental Plants Sexy Mean

I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.

Stefon Diggs

Work Seriously Hard Everything Take

Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.

Ron Cephas Jones

History Play Difficult Because Most

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord Byron

Heart Power Wife Me Common Sense

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Liu Xiaobo

Police Me Judges Hatred Enemies Who

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Josh Turner

People Rebel Way Lot

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

Real Estate Real Next Estate Artists

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

Dean Kamen

Water World Cold Thinking Remember

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Annie Lennox

People Retirement You Christmas Some

I grew up in New York City and in London.

Alissa Quart

New York City New London Up Grew

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

Death I Am Step End My Own Follow