Seven Simeons Quotes

“And now, my gentle friends, we are at the tale's end. For what was good in it, praise it; but for the rest forgive the poor story-teller. A wrong word is not like the bird in a cage. If ever a word flies out, no man can jump and catch it. In this I have no doubt!”
― Boris Artzybasheff, Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale

“And his thoughts were like entangled black threads. He could never find the end to them.”
― Boris Artzybasheff, Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale

“(G)irlish beauty is not like the taxpayer's duty: it's here today but gone tomorrow.”
― Boris Artzybasheff, Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale