Alexander Fedyunin

“To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown

“That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

“The problem with this is that you never feel ready enough. There will always be more to learn, so you will always be able to make an excuse that you should go off and learn more words before trying to speak to people. It’s”
― Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

“Most adults never master a foreign language, especially the phonology—hence the ubiquitous foreign accent.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language