Dostoyevsky Quotes

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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I… — Andrea Bocelli
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much betterÂ than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka. — Uzo Aduba
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, â€œAll things are permitted. — William Lane Craig
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. — Jenna Jameson
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. — Norman MacCaig
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. — Larry McMurtry
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's… — Kurt Vonnegut
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles,… — Jean Rhys
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I… — Eddie Izzard
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
Despite Langdonâ€™s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion… — Dan Brown
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of… — James A. Baldwin

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