Alina Bronsky Quotes
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Communism, my dear," I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while.
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Learn everything you want to know, and then learn some more. Don't worry if something doesn't go well. You are capable of so much.
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Read everything you can get your hands on.
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Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.
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“Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”
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I had tried to teach her that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. That nobody should be able to tell when you were uncertain. That you shouldn't show it when you loved someone. And that you smiled with particular affection at someone you hated.