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“Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?”
“In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.”
“Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.”
“America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.”
“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really a...”