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“Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?
The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
― The Radetzky March
― The Radetzky March
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