"Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new..."

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Source : "Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir".

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#Passion Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Volcanoes Quotes

“A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'”
“The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.”
“Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.”
“It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe
“The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.”
“Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.”
“That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “Lila: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan
“But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.”

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