Ilya Ilf quotes
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“Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.”
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“California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.”
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“Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
-- Ilya Ilf
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Source : "U.S. offers help with Uzbek terror" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.
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“On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'”
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“Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!”
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“I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.”
Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.38, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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