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Vasily Grossman

"Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere."

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.267, Random House

Vasily Grossman

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“Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.”
“When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I donâ€™t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didnâ€™t really care.”
“Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.”
“Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.”
“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.”

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“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”
“I can't blend in to how everyone else is looking.”
“Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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