318 Russian Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky

Poet Nothing Analytical Synthetic About Russian Write Instance Device Than English Apply Phenomenon

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. Joseph Conrad

You Soul Russian Divine Forget Resignation

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. Joshua Cohen

Google Think Russian Could German Survive American Literature American Literature

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could. Kate Beckinsale

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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. Kate Beckinsale

Great Me Pressure Reading Took Books States Would Would-Be Admit Russian Could Through Studied Written Spoiled Major French Read Were Getting Oxford Double Languages Many Novels Originally United United States University

Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt. Keith Gessen

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My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could they have. I assimilated wholeheartedly, found my parents in many ways embarrassing, and allowed my Russian to decline through neglect. Keith Gessen

Me Culture Parents Society Neglect Ways Embarrassing Thousand Russian Attached Could Through Allowed Ties Were Nor Off American Did Decline Cut American Society Many Wholeheartedly Found Assimilated

My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian. Keith Gessen

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Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old. Keith Gessen

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All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. Keith Gessen

Moral Russian Sharp Particularly Literature Strain

The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil. Kelly Ayotte

Natural Focused Totally Russian Economy Oil Natural Gas Pony Gas

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books. Kevin Barry

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