Lev Tolstoy Quotes

• [Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

  Paul Auster

  Chicos

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.

  Vera Nazarian

  Greek, Sand, Mark

  Fuente: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

  Adam Hochschild

  Russia, Political, Revolution

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.

  William Kristol

  Plato, Reading, Political

  Fuente: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy, and their ability to portray our human struggles and joys.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Struggle, Joy, Stories

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• En el instituto leí "Anna Karenina" de [Lev] Tolstoi y me encantó. Luego leí "Sobre la genealogía de la moral" de [Friedrich] Nietzsche y me impactó. No sé de dónde lo saqué. Mis padres me advirtieron que no mencionara ninguno de esos libros cuando fuera a las entrevistas de la universidad para no parecer un cerebrito. Me dijeron que hablara de deportes.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Sports, Book, School

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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