Quotes
Authors
Carolyn Cooke

"Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjectsâ€”illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations."

-- Carolyn Cooke

#Country Quotes #Beach Quotes #Brother Quotes

“The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”
“Hey!â€ I said, indignation filling me. â€œIâ€™m immortal! Doesnâ€™t that mean I wonâ€™t get saggy ***** and gray hair? Because if it doesnâ€™t mean that, I want a refundâ€””
“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.”

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“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”
“The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.”
“China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.”
“But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.”
“There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.”

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