Top 8 Bend Sinister Quotes

#1. If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

Richard Price

#2. Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

V. S. Subramanya Iyer

#3. I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

Sherman Alexie

#4. A dog is like a person - he needs a job and a family to be what he's meant to be.

Andrew Vachss

#5. The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

Eduard Bernstein

#6. Among more recent innovators was the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel Bend Sinister is trophied with delightful oddities like kwazinka ('a slit between the folding parts of a screen') and shchekotiki (which is 'half-tingle, half-tickle').6

Henry Hitchings

#7. Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

Samuel Adams

#8. Be your own guide, follow your own movement.

Heavy D

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