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The Idiot
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At some point in our conversation, Ivan mentioned that strawberries grew on trees. I said I thought they grew on little plants close to the ground. No, he said—trees. “Okay,” I said. I knew that in my life I had seen strawberries growing,
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“Afterward I lay on my side with A Critique of Postcolonial Reason propped half-open on the pillow beside me. Occasionally I lifted a finger to turn the page and allowed the heavy and confusing syntax to drift down through my eyes and into my brain like fluid. I'm bettering myself, I thought. I'm going to become so smart that no one will understand me.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“[it was not a] circle—just a concrete platform with a pay phone and a sign that read EUCLID CIRCLE. I thought Euclid would have been mad.
“That’s so typical of your attitude,” Svetlana said. “You always think everyone is angry. Try to have some perspective. It’s over two thousand years after his death, he’s in Boston for the first time, they’ve named something after him—why should his first reaction be to get pissed off?”
― The Idiot
“That’s so typical of your attitude,” Svetlana said. “You always think everyone is angry. Try to have some perspective. It’s over two thousand years after his death, he’s in Boston for the first time, they’ve named something after him—why should his first reaction be to get pissed off?”
― The Idiot
“One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn’t going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us again that Balzac’s Paris was extremely comprehensive. I went instead to the undergraduate library, to the basement where government documents were stored.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: “Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, artist.” It sounded better in Russian, because the word for “artist” had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like “spaghetti,” or “appendix.” Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Его всегда поражала деятельность ребятни на детской площадке. В ней не было смысла, делать среди деревянных домиков, горок и наклоненной временем шведской стенки было нечего, но дети находили, чем заняться, — и потому казались компанией сумасшедших, видящих то, чего нет, или кататонически застопоренных каким-либо занятием, вроде сосредоточенного копания снега лопаткой, бе́га по кругу и однообразных пинков в веранду. Когда выяснилось, что Игорь забирает сына пораньше, все дети замолчали и стали смотреть на них с сыном, как зомби, прервавшие свои разброд и шатание в ответ на подозрительный звук человеческого кашля.”
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