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1. "...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water.Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver in the wind. Clumsy, crude human fingers leave bruises on them that'll never fade! Never!Some people touch books without washing their hands!Some underline things in ink!Some even tear pages out!" ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

2. "You, Book! You are the only one who won't deceive, won't attack, won't insult, won't abandon! You're quiet - but you laugh, shout, and sing: you're obedient - but you amaze, tease, and entice; you're small, but you contain countless peoples. Nothing but a handful of letters, that's all, but if you feel like it, you can turn heads, confuse, spin, cloud, make tears spring to the eyes, take away the breath, the entire soul will stir in the wind like a canvas, will rise in waves and flap its wings!" ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

3. "That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

4. "The world may perish, but the meat grinder is indestructible." (112)" ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

5. "Golbuchiks? Golbuchiks are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they'll all return to clay. They're full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust.You, O Book, my pure, shining precious, my golden singing promise, my dream, a distant call— O tender specter, happy chance, Again I heed the ancient lore, Again with beauty rare in stance, You beckon from the distant shore!" ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

6. "And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life—running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien—marvelous, marvelous, marvelous." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

7. "Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

8. "I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

9. "The best time is always yesterday." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

10. "If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

11. "I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

12. "Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

13. "I am interested in the subject which is Russia." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

14. "People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

15. "You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read." ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

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