Dostoyevsky Quote by Eddie Izzard

“In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am…

— Thomas B. Sawyer

“Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing…

— Jack Kerouac

“Did you ever read The Cat's Revenge , by Claude Balls? Did you ever read The Passionate Russian , by E. Nawdor Titzoff? Or…

— John O'Hara

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian…

— Pat Conroy

I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship…

— Tony Blair

“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held…

— John Fante

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has…

— Albert Maltz

“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first time I read Marx, all I knew was he had given rise to this [Soviet] system that was supposed to be more…

— Joe Weisberg

“Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre