Yurii Andrukhovych Quotes
born 1960 Ukraine
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych (born March 13, 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
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By the way, our nightingale language ranks second in the world in its melodiousness.
We will teach them to win referendums. For a referendum is an ideal way to manipulate people while maintaining their illusion of having chosen their fate on their own.
To be drunk in Moscow is like having a relatively common hair color. Can you fault a man for the color of his hair? I think not.
The main thing is to resettle the Chukchi in the Ararat valley, and the Moldovans in Franz-Josef-Land, although it would be more logical to put the Austrians there.
You know that we are now allowing free expression of satirical thoughts. As they say, democracy is a beautiful thing, but humanity couldn't come up with anything worse than that.
The army is no longer capable of fulfilling the orders left by our ancestors: it only simulates. It is too squeamish to kill. This is no longer an army – it is a large gathering of pacifists and faggots, who are, in essence, the same.
"If I were a nationalist I would have answered you," you say slowly and articulately, even much too slowly, much too articulately. "But what sort of nationalist am I if I'm standing here with you drinking beer?"