(11 quotes found)
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you”
James A. Michener
“I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.”
Norman Rockwell
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
“As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!”
James Joyce
“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.”
