Joseph Wechsberg quotes

“The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.”
-- Joseph Wechsberg

Source : Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

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“A violin should be played with love, or not at all.”
-- Joseph Wechsberg

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“We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.”
-- Joseph Wechsberg

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“Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.”
-- Joseph Wechsberg

Source : Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

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“The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.”

Source : Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

“Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.”

“Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.”

“To accept duality is to earn identity.”

Source : Joss Whedon's Commencement Addressn at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber

“The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love.”

“The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued”

“By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.”

“Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.”

“The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.”