Alexander Jablokov Quotes

United States, Writer
1956

Alexander Jablokov is an American writer and novelist. He worked for years as a communications engineer in Boston before becoming a full-time writer in 1988; however, he later took a day job as a marketing executive.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov
- Long
- Truth
- Road
We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

Alexander Jablokov
- Learn
- Lessons
- Sign Up

I read this book a few decades ago, on a trip to some of the territories of the old Byzantine Empire, during which an emotional relationship came to an emotionally draining end, so it may retain some of the hectic inanity of my personal life, but great works are fractal, reflecting both our grand ambitions and our petty failures.

Alexander Jablokov
- Book
- Failures
- Ambitions
Death is real, irreversible, and awful. Do you want some advice? Don't wait until you're dead to try to communicate. Do it now. You still have a chance. Not a great one, but a better one than you will have. If you think it's hard to get your point across now, and that no one really understands what you're about, just try it when you're dead.

Alexander Jablokov
- Death
- Communicate
- Wait
They tended to dominate the air and liked annihilating things through saturation bombing, like gleefully violent children.

Alexander Jablokov
- Dominate
- Annihilating
When I was young," I say, beginning with the most painful words an old man knows.

Alexander Jablokov
- Words
- Knows
- Young