Alina Bronsky Quotes & Sayings

I had tried to teach her that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. That nobody should be able to tell when you were uncertain. That you shouldn't show it when you loved someone. And that you smiled with particular affection at someone you hated. — Alina Bronsky

Learn everything you want to know, and then learn some more. Don't worry if something doesn't go well. You are capable of so much. — Alina Bronsky

Read everything you can get your hands on. — Alina Bronsky

Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead. — Alina Bronsky

Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment. — Alina Bronsky

Communism, my dear, I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while — Alina Bronsky