"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."

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Source : Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.4, BoD – Books on Demand

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Russia Quotes #Differences Quotes #Spy Quotes

“I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.”
“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.”
“You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.”
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that”
“I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
“Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.”
“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.”

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