"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Despair Quotes #Form Quotes

“A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.”
“I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.”
“Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.”
“I love jazz music and sad music.”
“What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.”
“Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.”
“Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.”
“I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.”

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