I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Voiau sa vorbesca si nu puteau. Le erau ochii plini de lacrimi. Amandoi arau palizi si slabi; dat pe chipurile acestea bolnavicioase… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
