Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.
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You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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'Is all this serious?' Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.'Deadly serious,' Flere-Imsaho told him. Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
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The industry has not grown much during the past three or four years. It is practically stabilized at the present 1927. What has taken place is a shift from one manufacturer to another.
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I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
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God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
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For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.
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While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
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You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'
