Files under General | Aug
3rd
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
“For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
“For us in Russia communism was a dead dog. For many people in the West, it was a living lion.”