Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.
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I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
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Yesterday, we were a weak and small country trampled upon by big powers. Today, our geopolitical location remains the same, but we are transformed into a proud political and military power and an independent people that no one can dare provoke. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
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He was once our trumpeter, now his bugle's dumb, Pile your arms beneath it, for the owlet light is come, We'll wander through the roses where we marched of old with Peterkin, We'll search the summer sunset where the Hybla beehives hum, And - if we meet a fairy there - we'll ask for news of Peterkin.
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
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I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.
