Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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---not empirically, alas, but only theoretically---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.
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