Andrey Kurkov Quotes

#1. Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

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#2. The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

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#3. Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

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#4. Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

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#5. In one of my novels I described a secret factory, hidden away in the Ural Mountains, which produced artificial meteorites. The dream of the Soviet military's high command: bombarding the United States with artificial meteorites, while making people believe they were real ones.

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#6. I do not want to believe everything I read in the press. The papers, particularly the online editions, publish a lot of false news.

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#7. Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

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#8. On 4 March, Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his dacha. Official verdict: suicide. In spite of the fact that Kravchenko was killed by two bullets in his head.

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#9. Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.

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#10. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.

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