Thousand miles Quote by Pete Buckley

“four grim five-storey houses which looked just like the ones built in the Moscow suburbs in Khrushchev’s time.”

— Victor Pelevin

“Wherever you look, everything is in a row: a seven-story pile abutting a three-windowed log hut hard by a fantastical L-shaped mansion; ten paces…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all…

— Anton Chekhov

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A great many…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the City of…

— M T Anderson

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and Aksionov, the…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way…

— Ernest Hemingway

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember…

— Paul Laffoley

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons