Author of quotes: Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
In all likelihood, the American is a good patriot. And if you ask him, he will sincerely say that he loves his country, but at the same time it turns out that he does not love Morgan, does not know and does not want to know the names of the people who designed the suspension bridges in San Francisco, is not interested in why in America with every year the drought intensifies, who built the Boulder Dame and why, why the Southern states lynch blacks and why he should eat chilled meat. He will say that he loves his country. But he is deeply indifferent to the issues of agriculture, since he is not a farmer, industry, since he is not an industrialist, finance, since he is not a financier, arts, since he is not an artist, and military issues, since he is not a military man. He's a hard worker, gets his thirty dollars a week and doesn't give a damn about Washington with its laws, Chicago with its gangsters, and New York with its Wall Street. From his country, he asks only one thing - to leave him alone and not interfere with his listening to the radio and going to the cinema.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2021 / 19:15
“Here, here, sisters,” Adams said, “you are in the real America.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2021 / 19:12
The more extensive the advertising, the more trivial the subject for which it is intended. Only selling some nonsense can pay for this crazy advertising.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2021 / 19:09
It is enough for a person to lose his job, and the next day he begins to clearly understand that he is not the owner, but the most ordinary slave like a Negro, only white.
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MegaMozg 05-01-2021 / 22:01
New York is a frightening city. Millions of people are bravely fighting for their lives here. There's too much money in this city. Too much for some and very little for others. And it casts a tragic light on everything that's happening in New York.
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MegaMozg 05-01-2021 / 18:48
It is very interesting when the heart is filled with pride and the wallet is emptied proportionally.
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MegaMozg 05-01-2021 / 18:45
- Well, old man, is it time to go to the crematorium?
"It's time, Father," replied the doorman, smiling happily, "to our Soviet columbarium.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2020 / 20:48
He felt alert and knew that the first move e2 - e4 does not cause any complications. Other moves, however, were drawn already in a perfect mist, but it does not bother the great schemer.
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MegaMozg 15-03-2020 / 22:24
But keep in mind, dear Shura, a gift I do not intend to feed. For each vitamin, which I'll feed you, I will require a number of minor services.
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MegaMozg 29-11-2019 / 20:34
Geographer mad quite suddenly: one day he looked at the map of both hemispheres, and found on it the Bering Strait. All day the old teacher searched the map. Everything was in place: and new Faundlend, and the Suez canal and Madagascar and the sandwich Islands with the main city of Honolulu, and even the volcano Popocatepetl, and the Bering Strait was absent. And then, from the map, the old man started. <...> According to the authors the information on the map, which brought to mind a poor geographer, the Bering Strait do not. No Strait was caused by the stupidity of the publishing house "the Book and the pole."
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MegaMozg 24-07-2019 / 02:57
Ostap winked at Balaganov. Balaganov winked at Panikovsky. Panikovsky winked at Kozlevich. And although the honest Kozlevich exactly understood nothing, he too began to blink with both eyes.
And for a long time in a hotel room, "carlsbad" was a friendly comparison, accompanied by laughter, the clatter of languages, and even jumping out of the red plush chairs.
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MegaMozg 10-07-2019 / 01:26
- You're a female, Barbara, - sticky it ached. - You public girl!
- Basilius, you fool! - calmly replied the wife.
Wolf you - continued Lokhankin in the same drawling tone. - I despise you. A lover leaving me. By ptiburdukov me leave. By now you ptiburdukov worthless, vile, leaving me. So whom are you leaving me! You want to indulge in lust with him. Wolf is old and nasty though.
Reveling in his grief, Lokhankin didn't even notice that tells iambic pentameter, although never not write poems and did not like to read them.
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MegaMozg 08-05-2019 / 11:08
On the street fell a little inaudible rain. But even if there was a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning, then it would not be heard. New York itself thunders and gleams worse than any storm. It is a painful city. He makes all the time to look at yourself. This city hurts my eyes. But don't look at it.
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MegaMozg 30-03-2019 / 03:09
That includes current, receives one hundred and fifty dollars for each inclusion. From interested persons there is no release.
Quote Explanation: About the electric chair.
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MegaMozg 30-03-2019 / 03:08
Americans by their nature a chewing people. They chew gum, candy, the ends of cigars, their jaws constantly moving, knock, clap.
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MegaMozg 30-03-2019 / 03:07
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