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| Joseph Brodsky
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. Bad literature is a form of treason. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. How delightful to find a friend in everyone. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. |
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