We Didn't Love Freedom Enough.

Literature Cannot Develop Between The Categories "permitted"—"not Permitted"—"this You Can And That You Can't." Literature That Is Not The Air Of Its Contemporary Society, That Dares Not Warn In Time Against Threatening Moral And Social Dangers, Such Literature Does Not Deserve The Name Of Literature; It Is Only A Facade. Such Literature Loses The Confidence Of Its Own People, And Its Published Works Are Used As Waste Paper Instead Of Being Read. -letter To The Fourth National Congress Of Soviet Writers

Whenever The Tissue Of Life Is Woven Of Legalistic Relationships, This Creates An Atmosphere Of Spiritual Mediocrity That Paralyzes A Person's Noblest Impulses.

You're Sincere, But In Order Not To Upset Your Views You Avoid Talking With People Who Think Differently. You Pick Your Thoughts From Conversations With People Like Yourself, From Books Written By People Like Yourself. In Physics They Call It Resonance. You Start Out With Modest Opinions, But They Match And Build Each Other Up To A Scale.

It Is Within The Power Of Writers And Artists To Do Much More: To Defeat The Lie!

The Price Of Cowardice Will Only Be Evil. We Shall Reap Courage And Victory Only When We Dare To Make Sacrifices.