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“Take for yourself what you can, and don’t be ruled by others; to belong to oneself—the whole savour of life lies in that,”
― First Love
― First Love
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.”
― The Suitcase
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.”
― The Suitcase
“The word "America" has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares.”
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
“Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.”
― A Foreign Woman
― A Foreign Woman
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