Remizov Quotes & Sayings

A pretty sight, a lady with a book. — Shirley Jackson

One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms. — Mirra Ginsburg

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved. — Patrick Gaubert

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope. — Khaled Hosseini

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self. — Stanley Milgram

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. — Michael Ondaatje