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“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Common #Individual #Common Good
“All we can do is try not to fall.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Fall #Trying
“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Thinking #Friendly
“When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Strange #Coincidence #Should
“It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Beautiful #Adventure #Fighting
“When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#People #Leader #Should
“Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Language #Speak
“That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Gestures #Nerves #Born
“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Fall #Intelligent
“We are our own gods and our own demons.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Demon
“I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Character #Opportunity
“How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Lying #Truth Is #Lost
“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#People #Steps #Mud
“Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Lying #Should #Right Time
“Great knowledge brings great sorrow.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Sorrow
“Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Letting Go #Fighting #Evil
“At home the very walls lend you strength.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Wall #Home
“You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Boys #Order #People
“I am fat, lazy and kind.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Lazy #Kind #Fats
“Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Sex #Children #Love Is
“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Believe #Dark #Sheep
“But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Islands #Two #Differences
“Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Children #Drinking #Beer
“Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Lying #Statistics #Fairy Tale
“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Interesting #Challenges
“If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Sooner Or Later
“There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Winning #Evil #Victory
“Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Fleeting #Impulse #Ability
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Real #Media #Grandpa
“There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!”
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Roots #Evil #Goes On

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