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"If you want to know the people around you, find out what they read." -Stalin
("The best-read ruler of Russia from Catherine the great up to Vladimir Putin, even including Lenin who was no mean intellectual himself and enjoyed the benefits of a nobleman's education." -Montefiore)

"I would rather be a writer than movie star, president, or justice of the Supreme Court..."

Beautiful. It's the American Brothers Karamazov.
A book that has almost everything.

Beautiful. It's the American Brothers Karamazov.
A book that has almost everything.

" I get no triumph when I win and no tragedy when I loose. Without these it is meaningless. It is not a way to make money, that we know, and unless it can simulate birth and death, joy and sorrow, it seems, at least to me - it feels - it doesn't feel at all. I would do it if I felt anything - good or bad."

And it keeps getting Edener

"...But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread."

"It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it."

"...but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water."