Quote by Anna Funder Download Open image ““But there was also a car—for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada—that”” — Anna Funder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.” — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath':… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It's a McLaren SLR 722 Roadster." "How big is it?" "It's a convertible." "Will a tiger fit?" "No. It seats only two, but the boys are man half the day now." "Is it more than $30,000?" He squirmed and hedged, "Yes, but-" "How much more?" "Much more." "How much more?" "About $400,000 more." My mouth dropped open. "Mr. Kadam!" "Miss… — Colleen Houck Copy Share
“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will… — Anton Checkov Copy Share Image
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Such applications were sometimes granted because the GDR, unlike any other eastern European country, could rid itself of malcontents by ditching them into West… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“anti-fascist protective measure’. I have always been fond of this term which has something of the prophylactic about it, protecting easterners from the western… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
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