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• That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

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  Nerves, Gestures, Born

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

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  Lying, Statistics, Fairy Tale

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• An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

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  Drinking, Book, Philosophical

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

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  Children, Drinking, Beer

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House

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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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  Roots, Evil, Goes On

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

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  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.

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  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

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• Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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  Fleeting, Impulse, Ability

  "Day Watch". Book by Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Vasilyev, 2000.

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• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

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  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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• But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

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  Two, Differences, Islands

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

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  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

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  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• At home the very walls lend you strength.

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  Wall, Home

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• It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.

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  Book, Writing, School

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• This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

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  Book, Guy, Insulting

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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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  Book, Interesting, Challenges

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I am fat, lazy and kind.

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  Lazy, Kind, Fats

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• All we can do is try not to fall.

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  Fall, Trying, Can Do

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.440, Random House

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• What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

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  Real, Media, Living Right

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• Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

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  Book, Language, Sometimes

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.

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  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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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! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

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  Fighting, Cutting, Dark

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.

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  Girl, Falling In Love, Believe

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• There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

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  Reason, Anton Gorodetsky

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “Last Watch”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

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  Order, Enemy, Way

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Vasiliev (2009). “The Day Watch: (Night Watch 2)”, p.295, Random House

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