Sergei Dovlatov quotes

“There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

#Book Quotes #Suitcases Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2012). “The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story”, p.72, Counterpoint Press

#Kind Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Ecstasy Quotes

“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2011). “The Suitcase: A Novel”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

#Ocean Quotes #Infinity Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

#Home Quotes #Missing Quotes #Enough Quotes

“If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2014). “Pushkin Hills”, p.141, Counterpoint

#People Quotes #Rude Quotes #Moscow Quotes

“We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.”
-- Sergei Dovlatov

#Lasts Quotes #Born Quotes #Bus Quotes

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.”

“This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.”

“I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.”

“Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?”

“This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.”

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

Source : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.

“I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.”

“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”