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Vasily Grossman
“Zhenevyeva, we often make fun of intellectuals for their doubts, their split personalities, their Hamlet-like indecisiveness. When I was young I despised that side of myself. Now, though, I’ve changed my mind: humanity owes many great books and great discoveries to people who were indecisive and full of doubts; they have achieved at least as much as the simpletons who never hesitate. And when it comes to the crunch, they too are prepared to go to the stake; they stand just as firm under fire as the people who are always strong-willed and resolute.”
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): As heard on BBC Radio 4

Andrew Sean Greer
“A game to write a persuasive opening sentence for a book they have never read (this is difficult, as these diligent students have read everything) leads to a chilling start to Woolf’s The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, “Shark! Shark!”
Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Vasily Grossman
“What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone’s consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.”
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): As heard on BBC Radio 4

Timothy Garton Ash
“Our identities are given but also made. We can’t choose our parents, but we can choose who we become. ‘Basically I’m Chinese,’ Franz Kafka wrote in a postcard to his fiancée. If I say ‘basically I’m a central European’ I’m not literally claiming descent from the central European Yiddish writer Asch, but declaring an elective affinity.”
Timothy Garton Ash, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

“Before traveling east, start advancing your body clock as many days before your trip as the number of time zones you’ll be crossing. Get into sunlight early in the day, or use a sunlight lamp. Once you’re on the plane eastbound, wear eyeshades to cover your eyes two hours or so before sunset in your destination city, to acclimate yourself to the new “dark” time.”
Daniel J. Levitin, The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

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