AA Gill is Away Quotes

“У меня нет проблемы с почерком. Для меня он абсолютно понятен. При чем тут я – ведь это ты не можешь его прочитать. Значит, это не моя проблема, а твоя”
― A.A. Gill, AA Gill is Away

“По натуре я из тех чудаков, которые терпеливо выстаивают длиннейшую очередь и спрашивают, что здесь дают, только подойдя к окошку”
― A.A. Gill, AA Gill is Away

“In AD 9 was the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Roman commander Quinctilius Varus led twenty-five thousand legionaries into the heart of Germany and was slaughtered by Arminius’s spearmen, who rushed from their holy groves. Six years later, their skulls nailed to trees, their bones piled in torture pits and on votive altars, the Roman Army was discovered by the appropriately named Roman general Germanicus. It was the greatest tragedy ever to befall the Roman Empire and it sent a shudder of horror and shame across the civilized world that has vibrated in our subconscious for a thousand years. The slaughter in the Teutoburg Forest divided Europe into the warm south, who forever saw forests as dreadful places to be avoided and cleared, homes to dragons and trolls, antitheses of the civilized city, and the north, who understood them to be healing, protecting, mystical, spiritual places. How you feel about a silent birch forest at twilight says more about your blood and kin than your passport.”
― A.A. Gill, AA Gill is Away