Quotes About Soviet Literature

#1. After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

Alexander Kotov

#2. One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Nikita Khrushchev

#3. If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

Bill Ayers

#4. Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

Gary Thomas

#5. Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.

Marina Abramovic

#6. Writers are engineers of human souls.

Yury Olesha

#7. Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost have American editors shown any interest in issuing his poems here.

Michael Patrick Hearn

#8. A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.

Sean Penn

#9. Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#10. There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.

Mindy Kaling

#11. Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.

Adolf Hitler

#12. My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

Chen Guangbiao

#13. Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Heinrich Boll