"In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.”
“It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.”

Source : "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
“Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?”
“Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.”
“There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.”
“...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.”
“I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justinianoâ€™s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan
“I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.”

Source : "Kanye, Miley and the death of the diva" by LZ Granderson,, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

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