Leo Tolstoy

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• Leo Tolstoy – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 147
  Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter. ~ in What Is Art? God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. ~ in Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, Spirit, and Living a Good Life Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed ...
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• Reel People: Helen Mirren is Sofya Tolstoy

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  The film is The Last Station written and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the novel The Last Station by Jay Parini . Sofya Tolstoy Sofya Tolstoy (or Sophia Tolstaya) is famous primarily for her marriage to Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of such classics as Anna Karenina and War And Peace . ...
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• Sunday Quotes 11.22.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 135
  “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy “In a moment of crisis we will not rise to the occasion, we will default to our training.” — Unknown “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United ...
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• Quotes, Pics, and Clips VI

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 124
  I’m resurrecting an installment I used to do, a bite-sized anthology of things I had recently seen or been thinking about in the various areas that interest me.  Here are the first five parts of this series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.ARTSLike him or not, it’s fun watching Jackson Pollock [...]
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• Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre

  
  It's Not All Gravy — Authority: 125
  Maryann: Please join me in welcoming guest blogger, LK Hunsaker. Hi Maryann! It’s great to be here to talk with you and your readers today. Since your blog focuses on the absurdities of life, I thought I’d talk about Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre. I’m a big fan of mainstream/literary fiction: those ...
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• t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept...

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 483
  t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept thinking that no one could understand all the things that she understood, & all that was in her. —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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• Accursed Questions: Translating Russian Literature

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear are renowned contemporary translators of Russian literature. To date, they have collaborated to bring 16 key new editions of Russian novels to the English language, from Tolstoy and Gogol, to Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. And they are currently working on a new translation of Nobel ...
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• Russian Film Week ’09: Anna Karenina

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 131
  “A great Russian brand” is how director Sergei Solovyev described Leo Tolstoy in a press conference held last night. He also credited Oprah Winfrey for helping bring his screen adaptation of Anna Karenina to fruition when she recommended it to her Pavlovian viewers, making an unlikely bestseller of the Nineteenth ...
  2 weeks ago

• A novel approach to politics

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 130
  Back to the Socialist Standard . There are long term plans to digitise every issue of the Socialist Standard going back to September 1904, in order that they can be made available online for anyone and everyone to read but, in the meantime, the work of posting articles of interest from old Socialist Standards ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cite your sources, please

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 442
  Today I was reading a passage about Leo Tolstoy in the book A Faith and Culture Devotional . Parts of the book are used in an on-line guide, so this link is to that. I have the print copy. (Its a wonderful book in case youre looking for Christmas ideas.) The passage about Tolstoy’s treatment of his wife Sophia ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kreutzer Sonata at Gate Theatre review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  A thrillingly dark adaptation of Tolstoys incendiary novella. Rating:
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• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 119
  November 9, 2009 Washington, DC Cabinet card of Count Leo Tolstoy by Sass, Moscow. Photo from Library of Congress Collection , George Kennan Papers. Working on some research for the blog this morning, I was surprised to discover that Leo Tolstoy’s late-in-life spirituality greatly influenced both Mahatma ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Short On Facts” Fox

  
  Mad Kane's Political Madness — Authority: 514
  One of the silliest Republican (and Fox News) talking points is that the Democratic health reform bill is too long. Fox News Live Desk’s Trace Gallagher seems especially fond of it, making repeated (and inaccurate) comparisons to Tolstoy’s War and Peace. (Well, we always knew that Fox is fond of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Your dose of daily stupid: Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 138
  I cannot believe the… self-indulging sense of importance Rocco Landesman and member of Obama’s administration have.  Truly, I cannot.  However, I guess the follow isn’t too far fetched from a group that asked artists to shill for the administration . During his 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference ...
  4 weeks ago

• Blogs as Modern Art

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 163
  “In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between [...]
  5 weeks ago

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