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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Evil Control Reality Choose

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

God Me Looks Him Tell Blunt

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

People Think Journalism Consumers

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Robert Smithson

Advertising Language Because Becomes

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Leader Politics America More Wants

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

Work People Aesthetic You I Can Get

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

People Conversation Argument Talk

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

Character Hero People Villain Saying

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Life Time Saying You Wrong Right

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

Spirit More Whole Make Than Object

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

War Support America Values Sword

The gatekeepers must change.

Change Must Gatekeepers

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

Mind Conflict Body Your Body Your

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