Shalamov Quotes

#1. Solzhenitsyn writes: 'Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, and I respectfully confess that to him and not me was it given to touch those depths of bestiality and despair toward which life in the camps dragged us all.

Anonymous

#2. all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation. Having

Henry Hazlitt

#3. I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Channing Tatum

#4. It had just been made excruciatingly clear to him that the human male brain and the human male cock couldn't both sustain sufficient amounts of blood to function at the same time. It was one or the other, and the human male apparently didn't get to choose which one.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.

Varlam Shalamov

#6. I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#7. Enough." Titania rose and stabbed a glare of pure poison at me. "We do not need the half-breed, husband. Send her back to the mortal world she is so fond of."
"Sit down. I wasn't finished.

Julie Kagawa

#8. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#9. My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Edward Abbey

#10. A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

Varlam Shalamov

#11. Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friend.

Varlam Shalamov

#12. I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

Sergio Martinez

#13. But it's not time that matters. It felt ... like a secret place just us two knew about.

David Mitchell

#14. There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Varlam Shalamov

#15. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick The Great

#16. If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.

Varlam Shalamov

#17. I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

Leonard Mlodinow

#18. In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

Travis Kalanick

#19. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov