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Elena Gorokhova
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My NYT essay From Russia With Lies was translated into Russian by Inosmi, a Russian-language news website, where it received 399 comments, mostly registering outrage. People who read it, just as Captain Louis Renault in the movie Casablanca, were shocked, shocked. Clad in scuba gear, Vladimir Putin emerged from the Black Sea with two ancient amphorae that had been placed in 6 feet of water. “It...
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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
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Goodbye Leningrad
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“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
“A bunch of silly men chasing a ball" my mother says "give each one his own ball if they're so desperate to have one”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
“Look beyond that light,' says my father. 'Look hard and you'll see people filing into the theater. You'll see ushers run up and down the aisles; people talk, programs rustle-you'll hear a murmur. When the lights start to dim, the murmur rises, and then, just a moment before the curtain goes up, the noise stops-everyone in the house holds their breath, everyone knows what is going to happen. This is the moment I've always loved most:the anticipation of magic, the expectation of illusion.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
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