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Tolstoy Quotes

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it Picture Quote #1

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea Picture Quote #1

I just can’t imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it’s Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can’t imagine not reading the Russians Picture Quote #1

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they’re all empty Picture Quote #1

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? Picture Quote #1

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met Picture Quote #1

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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book Picture Quote #1

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy Picture Quote #1

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death Picture Quote #1

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That’s a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like ‘Breaking Bad’ is astonishing Picture Quote #1

Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in - laws, and other vital issues Picture Quote #1

If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn’t have any idea what was going on in anybody else’s mind Picture Quote #1

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It’s a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous Picture Quote #1

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books Picture Quote #1

Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented Picture Quote #1

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He’s a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer Picture Quote #1

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books Picture Quote #1

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel Picture Quote #1

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I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it (Tolstoy Quotes) What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea (Tolstoy Quotes) I just can’t imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it’s Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can’t imagine not reading the Russians. (Tolstoy Quotes) Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they’re all empty. (Tolstoy Quotes) Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? (Tolstoy Quotes) One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met. (Tolstoy Quotes) A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but ‘Anna Karenina’ is still a pretty good book. (Tolstoy Quotes) How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy. (Tolstoy Quotes) I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. (Tolstoy Quotes) A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That’s a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like ‘Breaking Bad’ is astonishing. (Tolstoy Quotes) Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in - laws, and other vital issues (Tolstoy Quotes) If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn’t have any idea what was going on in anybody else’s mind. (Tolstoy Quotes) It’s a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous. (Tolstoy Quotes) I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books. (Tolstoy Quotes) Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. (Tolstoy Quotes) [Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He’s a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer (Tolstoy Quotes) I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books (Tolstoy Quotes) Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel (Tolstoy Quotes)