Alina Bronsky Quotes

• Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

  Alina Bronsky

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

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• Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.

  Alina Bronsky

  Strong, People, One Day

  Alina Bronsky (2010). “Broken Glass Park”, p.39, Penguin

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