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Such needless death, so unnecessary, so tragic
— Amy Harmon
They had had about enough time to get their bearings and blow up one train when they ran out of food supplies.
— Masha Gessen
It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
— Masha Gessen
Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.
— Masha Gessen
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.
— Masha Gessen
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
— Salvador Dali
Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.
— Masha Gessen
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
— Masha Gessen
I don't want to tell people what they should think.
— Aasif Mandvi
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.
— Rita Hayworth
Angleterre Hotel,
— Masha Gessen
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.
— Masha Gessen
Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe.
— Debasish Mridha
When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.
— Masha Gessen
The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.
— Masha Gessen
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
— Mary Cheney
To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
— Masha Gessen
The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.
— Masha Gessen
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
— Thomas A. Edison
You don't have to teach fish how to swim; they are born knowing they will rule the waters.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Are you putting on airs?
— Masha Gessen
As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children
— Masha Gessen
such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,
— Masha Gessen