Joseph Wechsberg quotes
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“The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.”
-- Joseph WechsbergSource : Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books
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“A violin should be played with love, or not at all.”
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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.”
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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 WechsbergSource : 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
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“Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.”
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“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.
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“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”
Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber
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“Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.”
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