“Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of versts of desolate, monotonous, sun-parched steppe cannot bring on the depression induced by one man who sits and talks, and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine;… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I just walk how I walk. But I am also really inspired by the physical drama in silent films from the beginning… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But do you realize that there is a dreadful force that only saints and crazed fanatics can defeat? This force closes all… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
“I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Yosef Tversky, the son of a rabbi, despised religion and loved Russian literature, and found a great deal of amusement in what… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“…But as soon as the dirty snow disappeared from the sidewalks and streets, as soon as the slightly rotten, disquieting spring breeze… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not lying! How many times have… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“...there is something Russian about this particular use of the eye as an aggressive and defensive weapon. In Russian literature there is… — Erik H. Erikson Copy Share Image
“Before his and Pushkin's advent Russian literature was purblind. What form it perceived was an outline directed by reason: it did not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The Elm Log By Alexander Solzhenitsyn We were sawing firewood when we picked up an elm log and gave a cry of… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
