Konstantin Paustovsky - Quotes

Quotes

• Anticipation of happy days is sometimes much better than those days.
• A Man must be smart, unpretentious, fair, courageous and kind. Only then he can be entitled to be called a Man.
• Let's just not talk about love. We still don't know what it is.
• If we deprive the man of his ability to dream, one of the greatest motives that drives culture, arts, science and desire to fight for the beautiful future will fall aways.
• "From the book of dream interpretations": if a poet saw in a dream his money coming to an end -is that's for new poetry.
• Savrasov painted the The Rooks Have Come Back quickly - he was afraid for rooks fly away.
• The favorite theme of Chekhov: There was a wonderful and healthy forest, a forester was invited to take care of, the forest quickly withered and died.
• Assiduity is also a talent. Some writers should be photographed (from) the rear end instead of full face.
• Turgenev lacked the health of Leo Tolstoy and the disease of Dostoevsky.
• I believe that the foundations of the literature are imagination and reminiscences, that's why I never use notebooks. When you take a phrase from your book of notes, and put it into the text that you're writing in a different moment of time and in a different mood, that phrase shrivels and dies. I recognize notebooks only as a genre.