The Embezzlers Quotes

“You have never been to Leningrad before?"
"No, never."
"Neither have I been there. But they say it is a famous town. A European centre.”
― Valentin Kataev, The Embezzlers

“Each person has his own manner of waking in the morning after a drunken orgy, and as nothing is unknown to a Soviet citizen, so there is nothing strange in the fact that one Soviet citizen wakes up in one way, another so, and a third prefers not to awaken, but lies with face to the wall and eyes closed, waiting in vain for the friends who have forgotten to bring him half a vodka and a cucumber.”
― Valentin Kataev, The Embezzlers