Birthday – Page 2

Salman Rushdie on Language, Literature, Freedom of Expression, and More

Happy birthday, Salman Rushdie! 79, today! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Go for broke. Always…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Rone Shavers! Celebrate by reading these Shavers crônicas we published in 2019! Crônica No.…

Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Words alone are certain good.” …

Happy birthday, Fernando Pessoa! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Be plural, like the universe!” “To…

Happy birthday, Susan Howe! 89, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Originality is the discovery of…

Happy birthday, Federico García Lorca! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Only mystery allows us to live,…

Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg! Here are some quotes from his writing: “You say what you want to say…

Happy birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too am not a bit tamed,…

Happy birthday, John Barth! Here are some quotes from the author: “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s…