Carolyn Cooke Quotes
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects - illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that
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I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.
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Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.
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I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.
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I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
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THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
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Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects - illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.
