Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008

Topics

CommunismBuildingDownTryClock

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

Joe Haldeman

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Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jen Kirkman

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I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

Andrew Zimmern

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Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Robert Harris

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I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

Steven Levy

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I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Tom Stoppard

EducationSupportWantHumanities

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

Rosie Perez

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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.

Mary Steenburgen

MusicGreatMeCareMouthGroup

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

Lori Loughlin

FunnyGreatI AmMeFashionThink

Every society in every period does or doesn't talk about certain topics. We don't discuss money much; it's almost certain that most people don't know how much their colleagues earn. The Victorians, in contrast, were very happy to discuss money. They weren't, however, happy to discuss sex.

Judith Flanders

MoneyHappyPeopleSocietySexKnow

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

MotherMeSpeakKnowEverythingHow

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Dionne Warwick

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