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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

Beauty King Size Everything Like

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

Car Business Nothing Understand Line

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

Love Always Directing I Love

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Kindness Children Child Treat Well

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

People Key Bad People Bad Human

I skipped 'College Dropout' and 'Late Registration' and went straight to '808s & Heartbreak.'

College Late Heartbreak Straight

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love You Never Take Poet Notes

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Change Law Game End Better Talking

A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.

Voice You Know Journal Everyone Out

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Will Never Knowing Human Vocabulary

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Christopher Hitchens

World Medicine You Leave Things

I just like stories in which characters are struggling with something, whether it's an external force like in 'Vanishing,' or in 'Session 9,' where it's more of a monster within the mind.

Mind More Within Monster Something

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Work Step You Silent Stage Audience

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