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- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
- Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. — Albert Einstein
- So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
- Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes
- He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of… — D. H. Lawrence
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz… — David Foster Wallace
- Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky
- If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species,… — Unknown Author
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace
- I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis