- Count Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(08/28/1828 – 11/07/1910)
Russian writer
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| Died 11/06 | Died 11/07 | Died 11/08 | Death Dates |
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
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"You always admire what you really don't understand."
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"You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives—man doesn't get anywhere without advertising."
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"I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it."
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| "I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing." |  |
"Life oscillates between Voltaire and Rousseau, Confucius and Lao-Tze, Socrates and Christ. After every idea has had its day with us and we have fought for it not wisely or too well, we in our turn shall tire of the battle, and pass on to the young our thinning fasicle of ideals. Then we shall take to the woods with Jacques, Jean-Jacques, and Lao-Tze; we shall make friends of the animals, and discourse more contentedly than Machiavelli with simple peasant minds; we shall leave the world to stew in its own deviltry, and shall take no further thought of its reform." (whew! -s)
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"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."
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"Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique."
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| "I was on the bus, and the bus was crowded, and I pushed and shoved. And I was standing be side a white fella, about six foot three, 250 pounds, broad shoulders. He looked down at me and said, "Are you a member of the NAACP?" And I said no. He said, "Do you belong to CORE?" I said no. He said, "Are you a follower of Martin Luther King?" I said no. He said, "Well, do you believe in Black Power?" I said I don't believe in none of that stuff. He said, "Then get off my damn foot!" |  |
| "You know, people say 'Wait and go to heaven.' Well, if heaven's like they claim it is, I don't want to go. I'd get bored." |  |
| Born 11/06 | Born 11/07 | Born 11/08 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 11/06 | Died 11/07 | Died 11/08 | Death Dates |