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A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
Sergei Lukyanenko
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Sergei Lukyanenko
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.
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When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.
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There is no abstract Evil you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
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What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?
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All we can do is try not to fall.
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Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
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Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
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