Joseph Brodsky Quotes
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
Joseph Brodsky
Quotes to Explore
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
Olivia Munn
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I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.
Ian Somerhalder
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
Laura Esquivel
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
Abraham Cowley
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
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In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-— adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning… Let people say what they will, slavery, which abolitionists strove so gallantly to extirpate in America, prevails in another form in every civilized country; for entire populations, placed between the alternatives of death by starvation and toils which they detest, are constrained to choose the latter. And if we would deal frankly with the barbarous society to which we belong, we must acknowledge that murder, albeit disguised under a thousand insidious and scientific forms, still, as in the times of primitive savagery, terminates the majority of lives.
Elisee Reclus
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
Ernest Hemingway
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If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Ethan Zuckerman
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
Alfred Brendel
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Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
Joseph Brodsky
