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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-02-22

"Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." -- Joseph Brodsky (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] blueeowyn)

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posted by [identity profile] badgerthorazine.livejournal.com at 01:20pm on 2008-02-22
oh, that's a good one!
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posted by [personal profile] sabotabby at 09:31pm on 2008-02-22
My cousin reads a lot of Dickens, and her politics still suck. But overall, I agree with this quote, oh yes.
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posted by (anonymous) at 01:07am on 2008-02-25
I'd gladly shoot Dickens, if I could manage it, and I've read a lot of Dickens.

I suspect, however, that was not what St. Brodsky of the Vague Pronoun Reference meant.


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