Author of quotes: Alexander Tsypkin

You can always achieve more with money and a kind word than with just a kind word.

Every man should have a plan B. In case of immediate evacuation.

Around thirty good boys want to try what it's like to be bad. This is a wonderful beginning to a sure and sometimes very tragic end.

Slavik continued to play and did not show any sexual initiative. Saying goodbye, he kissed his hand. Dasha then looked at her for a long time and tried to understand her feelings. She was upset for the first time about the lack of sex on the first date. Then they had lunch. Slavik thoroughly prepared himself in the area of finance and, just in case, re-read Brodsky, even learned a thing or two. Especially fiercely Slavik moved the topic of marital fidelity, decency, caring for a woman, almost fell into religion. You moved on under pressure. Slavik was perfect. He even fell in love with himself and wanted to marry himself.

... still not believing in a miraculous deliverance from the death penalty, Slavik decided to use the situation to the maximum. He hammered a guilt complex into his wife, like Peter the Great piles in the Stray Island. Forever.

So she decided to get married just a good man, her life must be very bad.

Laziness. Sacred Russian feeling.

And am I correct in understanding that misunderstood?

Lying incompetence. Talent find the truth.

I think people initially live in the same age, and when their personal age coincides with the biological, they are happy. Look at Jagger, he always twenty-five. And how many of the thirty years in which the life force is barely seventy? Boring, grumbling, unblinking. Lydia Lvovna, I think, were happy years, thirty - five to forty, in that wonderful age, when a woman still beautiful, but wise, still looking for someone, but can live alone.

"Simon, if you're telling a girl that you love, only in order to get you into bed, you're not just a scoundrel, you cowardly and incompetent bastard." I must say, this lesson we have learned. Well, at least I did. Honesty and openness in thought has always been the key to restful sleep, a quick solution to the opposite side and friendly relations in the future, regardless of whether the erotic component.

An hour conversation with Lydia Lvovna was replaced a year at the University, in terms of encyclopedic knowledge and was invaluable from the point of view of knowledge of life. Self-esteem competed in it only with the gravity of nature and merciless sarcasm.
In addition, Lydia Lvovna has always been a source of food, sometimes money and a little more - good cognac. She understood and believed this dues not painful painful, besides loved grandson, and she knew how to love. This, by the way, not all can afford it. I'm afraid. Grandma Lida was not afraid of anything. Proud, independent, with great taste and impeccable manners, with manicured hands, modest but expensive jewelry, it is still an example for me of what should be a woman at any age.

At the time of our meeting she was eighty, the same age, so to speak Oct, despised this the most Oct all my heart, but considered it beneath my dignity and intelligence to deal with it. She was no aristocrat aristocratic roots, although the proletariat, and the peasantry of her family tree bypassed. The veins in places bore the marks of Moses, what Lydia L. said: "any decent person should be Jewish blood, but no more than bread in the chops." She was in good health and so sane that some of it was caused by class hatred.

Lydia Lvovna taught to all to apply to You, especially to the younger and the staff. I remember her lecture:
Someday you will have a driver. So, always, I repeat ALWAYS, be on You, even if he is the same age as yours and works for you for ten years. "You" - this armor, this miserable Russian that they could hide from a boorishness and rudeness reality around them.
Platinum word.