"Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. Itâ€™s despair â€” just keep laughing, until you are dead."

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Source : "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

Alina Bronsky

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.”
“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”

Source : Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil (2003). “The Story of English”, Penguin Group USA
“You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?”
“Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.”
“We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referentia l, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that's sick because it's self-referentia l, I have no doubts about preferring the former.”
“Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.”
“I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.”
“To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.”

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