In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality … - Joseph Brodsky

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We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

Joseph Brodsky

In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

Achievement, America, General, Matters, What Matters

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Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Believe, Grief, Harder, Political, Reading, Shoot

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Body, Eye, Failing, Ugliness

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Evil, Extreme, Feigned, Happiness, Thinking

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

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