Books Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

“Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn’t matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more or less…

— Lev Grossman

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

“What? Read more Russian history? It’s bloody and it’s tragic and best served with a lot of vodka. Trust me.”

— Heather Long

“Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement." - Lord Nash”

— Liz Carlyle

“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

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

— Richard Owen

“I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx…

— Param Vyas

“Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.”

— Larry Correia