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• Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a… — 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… — Nikolai Berdyaev
• He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the… — D. H. Lawrence
• Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,… — David Foster Wallace
• Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most.… — Saul Alinsky
• If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation… — Lev Shestov
• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most… — Arthur Koestler
• Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long… — Akira Kurosawa
• Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And… — David Foster Wallace
• I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction… — Richard Lewis
• I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of… — Michel Houellebecq

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