“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”
― Interpreter Of Maladies
― Interpreter Of Maladies
“Посмотри, что с нами стало. Насколько мне известно, только у древних греков были боги вина и веселья — Вакх и Дионис. А у нас вместо них — Фрейд, комплекс неполноценности и психоанализ, боязнь громких слов в любви и склонность к громким словам в политике. Скучная мы порода, не правда ли?
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“Ни один человек не может стать более чужим, чем тот, которого ты в прошлом любил...”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”
― The Black Obelisk
― The Black Obelisk
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