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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
— Bayard Taylor
Initiate. Complete.
— Susan Dennard
A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.
— Sergei Dovlatov
Don't think love has sizes. It either is or isn't
— Sergei Dovlatov
There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
— Warren Ellis
It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working.
— Joe Cawley
There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase
— Sergei Dovlatov
You are already broke and don't even know it.
— Ben Feldman
Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
— Sergei Dovlatov
Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
— Cassandra Clare
Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.
— Sergei Dovlatov
I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.
— Kristen Schaal
Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.
— Sergei Dovlatov
The day was cold but sunny. The city was decorated with holiday flags.
— Sergei Dovlatov
Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.
— Sergei Dovlatov
I'm thinking that my best friend killed herself so slow it was almost like a magic trick, and other people let her do it.
— Brenna Yovanoff
If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.
— Sergei Dovlatov
We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We've just been to the last stop of this bus.
— Sergei Dovlatov
Q. Star Wars or Star Trek? A. Doctor Who.
— Andy Weir
I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life.
— Sergei Dovlatov
We didn't raise our daughter, we merely loved her.
— Sergei Dovlatov
No point in arguing. But of course I argued.
— Sergei Dovlatov
The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.
— Judy Gold