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“Lenin found music depressing.
Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music.
Khrushchev despised music.
Which is the worst for a composer?”
― The Noise of Time
Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music.
Khrushchev despised music.
Which is the worst for a composer?”
― The Noise of Time
“I'm so small,” said the mole. “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
“For she too has her little pains, and they wear her out, though she does not speak of them, or is not asked, and when they show themselves it tends to be when she's alone.”
― The Promise
― The Promise
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