Mr. B Quotes

“And as he separated the memories out over the course of his life, like wheat from chaff, all that was good and warm and childhood seemed to slide onto the imperial side of the ledger, and all that was violent, anguished, and upsetting piled up in a heap around the dark incidents that eventually led to the most inescapable disruptions of all: war and revolution. But his light-suffused memories stayed with him; they were the jewels he would sew into the hem of his mind and carry with him out of Russia. He had to remember them because no one else would.”
― Jennifer Homans, Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century