25 Quotes by Sergei Dovlatov

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Есть мнение, что брак на грани развода самый долговечный.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.

Let’s assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it’s in Russian.

You can divide the world into two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.