One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
“How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?”
“Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.”
“Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.”
“The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.”
“Art isn't a matter of 'what' but of 'how'.”
“Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.”
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.”
“Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.”
“He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread--that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.”
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