W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I'm A Russian And All I Know Of Russia Is What I've Read. I Yearn For The Broad Fields Of Golden Corn And The Forests Of Silver Beech That I've Read Of In Books And Though I Try And Try, I Can't See Them With My Mind's Eye. I Know Moscow From What I've Seen Of It At The Cinema. I Sometimes Rack My Brain To Picture To Myself A Russian Village, The Straggling Village Of Log Houses With Their Thatched Roofs That You Read About In Chekov, And It's No Good, I Know That What I See Isn't That At All. I'm A Russian And I Speak My Native Language Worse Than I Speak English And French. When I Read Tolstoi And Dostoievsky It Is Easier For Me To Read Them In A Translation. I'm Just As Much A Foreigner To My Own People As I Am To The English And French. You Who've Got A Home And A Country, People Who Love You, People Whose Ways Are Your Ways, Whom You Understand Without Knowing Them - How Can You Tell What It Is To Belong Nowhere?
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