Andrei Platonov Quotes

#1. Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

Kristin Hersh

#3. If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

#4. Pre-Digested', that almost

E.R. Punshon

#5. I lived and languished.

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#6. Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

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#7. What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

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#8. Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

#9. O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

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#10. He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.

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#11. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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#12. We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Andrei Platonov

#13. If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

Evgeny Morozov

#14. If they don't think, people act senselessly.

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#15. From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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#16. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

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#17. Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it.

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#18. Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

Travis Tritt

#19. I just love chickens.

Patti LuPone

#20. Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

#21. Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

Stevie Wonder

#22. Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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#23. My body gets weak without truth.

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#24. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom.

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#25. Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived.

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#26. At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

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#27. The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

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#28. People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals.

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#29. I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

Sam Raimi

#30. We hate our squalor.

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#31. What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

Sheri S. Tepper

#32. I closed my eyes under the fluroescent lights and tried to make another birthday wish, a onetime do-over, a rebate, a trade-in on the kitchen sink kiss that started everything, offered up for just one last miracle.

Sarah Ockler

#33. I have a trend of my own.

Andrei Platonov

#34. Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Jerry Garcia

#35. I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

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#36. When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

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#37. Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.

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#38. Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

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#39. Don't get too close, it hurts.

Graham Kennedy

#40. Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

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