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Dostoyevsky
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  • He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.†  (source)
  • He never lived to see his dreams fulfilled, but when I thumb through his old brown briefcase filled with his paperwork from forty-five years ago, the notes and papers he left behind reveal a man in constant thought: references to Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, and notebooks upon notebooks filled with sermons and Bible verses.†  (source)
  • Straight out of Dostoyevsky.†  (source)
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  • I wasn't into Chaucer or Proust or Dostoevsky or any of those other dead guys; I read mainly mysteries and thrillers and books by Stephen King, and I took a particular liking to Carl Hiaasen because his words flowed easily and he always made me laugh I couldn't help but think that if schools had assigned these books in English class, we'd have a lot more readers in the world.†  (source)
  • Another masterly description of how existential choice springs from inner need and despair can be found in Dostoyevsky's great novel Crime and Punishment.†  (source)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky Wallowa Lake State Park in Oregon and its surrounding area has been well referred to as the Little Switzerland of America.†  (source)
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky PART I Book I. The History Of A Family Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.†  (source)
  • He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky.†  (source)
  • The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's.†  (source)
  • From "The Grand Inquisitor", The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)†  (source)
  • Notes from the Underground FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY PART I Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary.†  (source)
  • I was taking one of I hose honors programs that teach you to think independently, and except for a course in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and a seminar in advanced poetry composition, I would spend my whole time writing on some obscure theme in the works of James Joyce.†  (source)
  • But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke's company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon.†  (source)
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