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Goncharov, Ivan
1812–91
1812–91
1
No devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life…My life began by flickering out.
You lost your ability for doing things in childhood…It all began with your inability to put on your socks and ended by your inability to live.
No devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life…My life began by flickering out.
Obolomov
(1859) pt. 2, ch. 4 (tr. David Magarshak)
You lost your ability for doing things in childhood…It all began with your inability to put on your socks and ended by your inability to live.
Obolomov
(1859) pt. 4, ch. 2 (tr. David Magarshak)
Goodman, Amy
1957–
1957–
1
Go to where the silence is and say something.
accepting an award from Columbia University for her coverage of the 1991 massacre in East Timor by Indonesian troops
Go to where the silence is and say something.
accepting an award from Columbia University for her coverage of the 1991 massacre in East Timor by Indonesian troops
in
Columbia Journalism Review
March/April 1994
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
1931–
1931–
1
The idea of restructuring [perestroika]…combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.
The idea of restructuring [perestroika]…combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.
speech on the seventieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, 2 November 1987
Gordon, Adam Lindsay
1833–70
1833–70
1
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Ye Wearie Wayfarer
(1866) "Fytte 8"
Gordon, Mack
1904–59
1904–59
1
Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo,
Track twenty nine,
Boy you can gimme a shine.
Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo,
Track twenty nine,
Boy you can gimme a shine.
"Chattanooga Choo-choo" (1941 song)
Gorky, Maxim
1868–1936
1868–1936
1
The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent "mechanics of culture", "engineers of the soul".
The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent "mechanics of culture", "engineers of the soul".
speech at the Writers' Congress 1934.
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