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55 Tolstoy quotes by 51 unique authors

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of… — Judd Apatow
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. — Ernest Hemingway
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I… — Vladimir Putin
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. — Mike Tyson
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward
I'm never going to be Tolstoy. — Tucker Max
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family… — Sherman Alexie
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
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… — Mordecai Richler
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't. — John Gardner
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and… — Haruki Murakami
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. — Gretchen Rubin
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”) — Yevgeny Zamyatin
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth… — Paul Neilan
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"… — Carrie Vaughn
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it… — Haruki Murakami
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would… — Tana French
It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer… — Melina Marchetta
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Emma Goldman

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