Masha Gessen Quotes
Masha Gessen Quotes
The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.
3660 Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art - something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts - a great work of art is always a miracle.
3118 To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
4216 When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
2340 Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.
2150 It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
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