"It seems to me that the novel is……" — Ilya Ehrenburg
"It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be."
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15 Quotes by Ilya Ehrenburg
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or…
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Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German…
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture…
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as…
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of…
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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