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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Responsibility Conscience Out

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

Good Luck Good Luck Year Long You

I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.

Travis Kalanick

Ice Ice Cream Like Cream

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

History Baseball You Back Sometimes

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Acting More Film Just Making Than

I've always wanted to treat people the way I want to be treated.

People Treat Want Way Always Wanted

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Myself Believe Talking Person Cannot

The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.

Red Me You Early Pictures See

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Live Surprise Nothing Expect

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Myself Man I Am You Place Know

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

Technology Myself Architecture Design

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

Sea Black Europe Mediterranean

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Think Fair Being Southern I Think

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