Quotes from Shukshin
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the writer Vasily Shukshin .
In Shukshin’s quotes one can feel sincere concern for the Soviet people, the fate of Russia, and the situation with domestic literature.
Quotes are summarized by topic: writing, people, about oneself, life ethics, life, Russians and Russia, human manifestations, relationships, truth and lies, power, women and men, smart person, intelligent person, philistines, soul.
About writing
Every real writer, of course, is a psychologist, but he himself is sick.
Everything convenient interferes with art.
Thousands must try to write for one to become a writer.
Depress yourself to the point of genius.
Now I’ll say it beautifully: if you want to be a master, dip your pen in the truth. You won't be surprised by anything else.
Everything in the story needs to be clear, and even more.
For more than a hundred years our titans have pulled the burden of Russian literature. And suddenly the rope broke; the barge was carried back. How much strength is needed now to stop it, fight the current and start pulling it again. How many heroes will it take! It’s good if the barge doesn’t get completely smashed on the rocks.
They say: a writer must experience life as fully as a sponge becomes saturated with water. In this case, our classics had to shout at a certain time in their lives: “Squeeze me!”
I know when I write well: when I write and, as if with a pen, I pull out the living voices of people from the paper.
Listen - art! Art - so to speak, to be understood. They silently understood and silently said “thank you.”
Yes, we are facing danger. But only - in military affairs we arm ourselves, in art, in literature - we quickly disarm.
Grammatical errors in beautiful handwriting are like lice in a nylon shirt.
The narrator writes one big novel all his life. And they evaluate it later, when the novel is finished and the author has died.
About people
Why does a person spare no effort, no money, no health? For pleasure. Only in his youth is he ready to give up his health for this, in his old age is he ready to give up pleasures for his health.
The man is a complete idiot. When he gets up in the morning he grumbles, he goes to bed and he grumbles. He is always dissatisfied with everything, grunts, hates everyone. They say character.
He has many roads, and all of them are fun.
The strong in this world will know everything: shame, and torment, and self-judgment, and the joy of enemies.
Never before in human history has a parasite done anything worthwhile.
Even the most extraordinary person is interesting precisely because he is ordinary.
It's easier to live with mean people. You can hate them - it’s easier. But with the good ones it’s difficult, it’s somehow embarrassing.
We should not forget about our souls, we should be a little kinder, we, with our speeds, would not forget that we are people.
Here you want all people to live the same... Two logs burn differently, but you want people to live the same!
By the way, quotes about people
About Me
I view my entire life as a three-round battle: youth, maturity, old age. Two of these rounds must be won. I've already lost one.
Never, not once in my life have I allowed myself to live a relaxed, lounging life. Always tense and collected. Both good and bad. Good - I didn’t allow myself to be knocked down; it’s bad - I start to twitch, I sleep with my fists clenched... This can end badly, I can crack from tension.
Yes, I would like to laugh and hate, and that’s what I do. But I judge by a high, heavenly court - the so-called simple, average, normal positive person does not suit me. Sickening. Boring.
I can't live in the village. But I love being there - it burns my heart.
And then an idea struck me. As soon as I drink too much, different ideas start hitting me. Sometimes, with a hangover, your whole body hurts.
Look how many good people there are around. You just have to live. You just need to live smart. I've seen a lot throughout my time. My soul grieves. But she remembers everything. Give it time, my friend, everything will be fine.
I am a son, I am a brother, I am a father... My heart has grown like meat to life. It’s hard, it hurts to leave.
About life ethics
There should never come a time when you have to give up and say that nothing can be done about it. It can always be done.
Believe that everything was not in vain: our songs, our fairy tales, our incredible victories, our suffering - do not give all this for a sniff of tobacco. We knew how to live. Remember this. Be human.
If you see a person needs help, take it and help. Do not ask.
We must not be discouraged! — the pig grunted, laying down in a puddle.
Don't turn your back on people - they will bite you.
It's not a shame to be poor, it's a shame to be cheap!
Why shame on those who imitate? No, glory to those who are imitated - they worked for the future.
We are not thinkers, our salaries are not the same!
About life
It is not old age itself that is respected, but the life lived. If she was.
In general, there is a lot of fairness in life. Here they regret: Yesenin did not live long. Exactly - about the size of a song. If this song were longer, it wouldn't be so painful. There are no long songs.
Nowhere else have I seen such clear, simple, complete expediency as in the home of my grandfather, a peasant, such natural, truthful, essentially kind relationships between people there.
Long live death! If we are not able to comprehend it, then death allows us to understand that life is beautiful.
I am looking for a hero of our time and, it seems, I have found him; the hero of our time is a demagogue.
This is how you live - forty-five years already - you keep thinking: nothing, someday I will live well, easily. And time goes by... And so you come to this very hole in which you have to lie down, and all your life you have been waiting for something. The question is, what should we have waited for, and not made such joys as we could have done?
By the way, quotes about life
About Russians and Russia
A Russian person is helped in many ways by the awareness of this: there is still somewhere to retreat, there is somewhere to catch your breath, to gather your courage.
We must say quite calmly—without swagger and arrogance—that Russia has its own path. The path is difficult, tragic, but not hopeless in the end. We have nothing to be proud of yet.
The older generation shares their experience with the younger... Yes, but don’t be timid to share!
In our society, the communist revolutionary was defeated by the crooked official.
Don’t touch the army, don’t touch the police, don’t touch the party apparatus, don’t touch officials of ministerial rank... Well, I won’t be a peasant myself. In Russia everyone is good!
Something remains in us from our homeland, something that lives in us all our lives, sometimes delighting, sometimes tormenting, and it always seems that we will see it, our homeland, someday again.
By the way, quotes about Russians
About human manifestations
Where will you put your character? You can't hide it...
When we feel bad, we think: “But somewhere, someone is feeling good.” When we feel good, we rarely think: “Somewhere, someone is feeling bad.”
The most observant people are children. Then there are the artists.
Truly great people are determined, among other things, by the fact that they tolerate dissidents around them. Hitler and Stalin do not go there under this article.
The learned phrase suits a dull face: “Complete lack of information.”
If you manage to deceive a person, this does not mean that he is a fool, it means that you were trusted more than you deserve.
About relationships
The person who gives wants to experience joy. Under no circumstances should this joy be taken away from him.
Should you feel sorry or should you not feel sorry - that’s how fake people pose the question.
Those whom I help in one way or another do not even suspect how they help me.
And the mysterious ones are first respected, and then they are loved or despised, depending on how this mystery turns out.
He had a special way of saying the most important things: quietly, as if by the way. And therefore, perhaps, this, said quietly, sincerely, entered the soul and remained in the memory.
If he’s silent, it means he doesn’t want to talk about it, so why trouble his soul with questions.
About truth and lies
The truth is always laconic. Lies - yes.
Morality is Truth. Not just the truth, but the Truth. For this is courage, honesty, this means living the people’s joy and pain, thinking as the people think, because the people always know the Truth.
Lies, lies, lies... Lies for salvation, lies for atonement for guilt, lies for achieving a goal, lies for a career, prosperity, orders, apartment... Lies! All of Russia was covered with lies like a scab.
By the way, quotes about truth and quotes about lies
About the authorities
No mind, no truth, no real power, not a single living idea. But with what help do they rule us? There is only one explanation left - through our own stupidity. This is where our art needs to beat and beat.
The stupidity of a ruler is not scary, for he is always divinely stupid if he knows no other joy than politicking and deception. It's scary that people tolerate this.
The fool who walks down our street has more time—epoch—in him than in some minister.
About women and men
No, when God created woman, he did something like this. The creator got carried away, got carried away. Like any artist, however.
Don't worry about him so much! He was never a man! He was a man. And you know, there are a lot of men in Rus'.
A wedding is not a sign of quality. This is just a symbol, but not a guarantee. The strength of family life is not measured by the number of bottles drunk.
By the way, quotes about women and quotes about men
About a smart person
A critical attitude towards oneself is what makes a person truly smart. It’s the same in art and literature: if you acknowledge your share honestly, it will make sense.
In life - with age - you begin to understand the power of a person who constantly thinks. This is a huge, conquering force. Everything perishes: youth, charm, passions - everything ages and collapses. A thought does not perish and the person who carries it through life is beautiful.
Everything valuable and beautiful on earth was created by an intelligent, talented, hardworking person.
About an intelligent person
A cultured person... This is someone who is able to sympathize. This is a bitter, painful talent.
The phenomenon of an intelligent person is rare. This is a restless conscience, mind, a complete lack of voice, when it is necessary - for consonance - to “sing along” with the mighty bass of this powerful world, bitter discord with oneself because of the damned question “what is truth?”, pride... And - compassion for the fate of the people . Inevitable, painful. If all this is in one person, he is an intellectual. But that's not all. An intellectual knows that intelligence is not an end in itself.
About the bourgeoisie
The era of the great offensive of the burghers. And in the forefront of this terrible army are women. It's sad, but true.
The people gathered for debauchery.
About the soul
What you are, such is your soul.
Let's shuffle to our heart's content.
By the way, quotes about the soul
About miscellaneous
Laughter is pink foam on the tears of life.
You are happy when you are brave and right.
As for dreams... I don’t reject dreams, but I still believe in work. A dream is a dream, and when a master gets down to business, when his hands know him and know how to do it accurately, beautifully, intelligently - this is more valuable than any dream. And one more thing: I don’t trust beautiful words. Dream is too beautiful a word. People have said a lot of beautiful words, we need to do just as many beautiful things, and it would be nice to have more.
It so happened that Shukshin found himself in difficult relations with both the Soviet officialdom and the capital’s intelligentsia. Not an easy character. Striving for justice. He lived only 45 years. Unfortunately, in its own way, the story is typical of the Soviet era.
Quotes about Shukshin
- L.N. Fedoseeva-Shukshina: Shukshin’s mansion? He's a gem. Everything in it is from the Lord God and nothing from higher education. He is a rooted man, and life all begins from the roots, and in him these roots of the Russian land sat very firmly. He was not a classic in the literary sense of the word. The classics are Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky. And Shukshin is a continuation of his land, his village, part of the people.
- V.P. Astafyev: He was portrayed as such a peasant... So, at the table in front of me sat an intellectual, not only in his manners, in his methods of communication, but also in his appearance... A very sophisticated face... He spoke little, but was somehow actively sociable...
- S.F. Bondarchuk: His fundamental feature was primogeniture, which is extremely rare.
- S.A. Lyubshin: If there is a standard of sincerity, then it is Shukshin. Life in the world is very difficult for sincere people. This is easy for rational natures, but if he loved someone, there was no doubt about who he didn’t love...
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“THOUGHTS OF GREAT PEOPLE” - VASILY SHUKSHIN
I don’t remember which of the greats said: on tombstones it is necessary to write not who a person was, but who he could have been. V. Shukshin
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin needs no introduction. More than one generation grew up reading his books and films, and his words and thoughts in every episode, in every paragraph are accurate and insightful. A talented director, actor and writer with a Russian soul and heart. Perhaps Shukshin’s most important talent is to talk about our lives, to play roles that reveal the essence of our people. Revealing the inner world of the incomprehensible Russian soul was Vasily Makarovich’s special gift.
Vasily Makarovich died too early - at the age of 45. For heart failure. On October 2, 1974, Vasily Makarovich Shukshin died suddenly during the filming of the film “They Fought for the Motherland” on the ship “Danube”.
The life path of brilliant people is almost always short. But the memory of a person - it is not written with chalk on the asphalt, or on a blackboard - it cannot be erased...
Wonderful words are dedicated to Vasily Shukshin by academician and professor A. A. Korolkov. These lines say everything and there is nothing to add:
“Vasily Shukshin stopped the disastrous process of losing the national face of Russia in culture and became the protagonist of a new Renaissance of Russian spirituality. A superficial attitude towards Shukshin’s work highlighted the appearance - the confrontation between city and countryside, intelligentsia and people. All layers of society felt Shukshin as their own; they read him, watched him in films, joyfully recognizing his own Russian soul that had been revealed. Shukshin cannot become obsolete, because even with the final disappearance of the living beating of Russian culture, interest in the spiritual continent called Russia will not disappear, and Shukshin is the living soul of Russia, pulsating with words and feelings. In it, Russia found its self-awareness and sense of well-being in the second half of the 20th century.”
Quotes, thoughts, aphorisms by Vasily Shukshin
“Over the course of its history, the Russian people have selected, preserved, and elevated to the level of respect such human qualities that are not subject to revision: honesty, hard work, conscientiousness, kindness. We have brought out and preserved the great Russian language from all historical catastrophes; it was handed down to us by our grandfathers and fathers.
Believe that everything was not in vain: our songs, our fairy tales, our incredible victories, our suffering - do not give all this for a sniff of tobacco.
We knew how to live. Remember this. Be human."
August 21, 1974
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“You’ve been living like this—forty-five years now—and you keep thinking: nothing, someday I’ll live well, easily. And time goes by... And so you come to this very hole in which you have to lie down, and all your life you have been waiting for something. The question is, what should we have waited for, and not made such joys as we could have done? Here you go: you have money, you have some extraordinary boots lying around - take them and make a person happy! Maybe there won’t be such an opportunity.”
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Truly great people are defined, among other things, by the fact that they tolerate dissidents around them. Hitler and Stalin do not go there under this article.
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When we feel bad, we think: “But somewhere, someone is feeling good.” When we feel good, we rarely think: “Somewhere, someone is feeling bad.”
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It is not old age itself that is respected, but the life lived. If she was.
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You are happy when you are brave and right.
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The learned phrase suits a dull face: “Complete lack of information.”
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And Rus' will still live: dance and cry under the fence...
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A critical attitude towards oneself is what makes a person truly smart.
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The person who gives wants to experience joy. Under no circumstances should this joy be taken away from him.
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We are not thinkers, our salaries are not the same!
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Both your prosecutor and everyone who is seriously involved in economics know perfectly well that they are stealing. Moreover, a certain percentage, it seems fifteen percent, of the state budget is allocated specifically for theft.
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“We shouldn’t be discouraged!” – the pig grunted, laying down in a puddle.
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The era of the great offensive of the burghers. And in the forefront of this terrible army are women. It's sad, but true.
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In three cases, I especially clearly understand that I am wasting my time: 1. When I stand in line. 2. When I read someone's mediocre manuscript. 3. When I sit in a meeting.
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I am looking for a hero of our time and, it seems, I have found him; the hero of our time is a demagogue.
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If someone said good and truthful words and was not heard, it means that he did not say them.
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Why shame on those who imitate? No, glory to those who are imitated - they worked for the future.
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Every real writer, of course, is a psychologist, but he himself is sick.
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Yes, we are facing danger. But only - in military affairs we arm ourselves, in art, in literature - we quickly disarm.
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Grammatical errors in beautiful handwriting are like lice in a nylon shirt.
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The most observant people are children. Then there are the artists.
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Don’t touch the army, don’t touch the police, don’t touch the party apparatus, don’t touch officials of ministerial rank... Well, I won’t be a peasant myself. In Russia everyone is good!
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Yes, there is no literature. It’s scary to even say, but we live!
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No mind, no truth, no real power, not a single living idea!.. But with what help do they rule us? There is only one explanation left - through our own stupidity. This is where our art needs to beat and beat.
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Unfortunately, we are not always so resourceful in our answers that our souls don’t ache later: I said something wrong here, I was wrong there.
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No, when God created woman, he did something like this. The creator got carried away, got carried away. Like any artist, however.
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I view my entire life as a three-round battle: youth, maturity, old age. Two of these rounds must be won. I've already lost one.
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We should not forget about our souls, we should be a little kinder, we, with our speeds, would not forget that we are people.
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There should never come a time when you have to give up and say that nothing can be done about it. It can always be done.
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“Everything valuable and beautiful on earth was created by an intelligent, talented, hardworking person. Never before in human history has a parasite done anything worthwhile."
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Everything perishes: youth, charm, passions, everything grows old and collapses. A thought does not perish, and a wonderful person is the one who carries it through life.
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There is always a desire to turn literature into sports competitions: who is shorter? Who is longer? Who is easier? Who is more difficult? Who is braver? And literature is truth. Revelation.
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Nowhere else have I seen such clear, simple, complete expediency as in the home of my grandfather, a peasant, such natural, truthful, essentially kind relationships between people there.
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It’s one thing to live and fight when there is somewhere to return, but another thing when there is nowhere to retreat.
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Both your prosecutor and everyone who is seriously involved in economics know very well that they are stealing.
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Never, not once in my life have I allowed myself to live a relaxed, lounging life.
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Depress yourself to the point of genius.
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A Russian person is helped in many ways by the awareness of this: there is still somewhere to retreat, there is somewhere to catch your breath, to gather your courage.
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Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases - Shukshin Vasily Makarovich
- Depress yourself to the point of genius.
- There is truth - there is literature.
- Everything convenient interferes with art.
- You are happy when you are brave and right.
- We are not thinkers, our salaries are not the same.
- The truth is always laconic. Lies - yes.
- The end of the movie! The end of everything that prevents me from writing.
- It is not old age itself that is respected, but the life lived.
- Everything in the story needs to be clear, and even more.
- The most observant people are children. Then there are the artists.
- Every real writer, of course, is a psychologist, but he himself is sick.
- Yes, there is no literature. It’s scary to even say, but we live.
- Should you feel sorry or should you not feel sorry - that’s how fake people pose the question.
- A critical attitude towards oneself is what makes a person truly smart.
- Grammatical errors in beautiful handwriting are like lice in a nylon shirt.
- I am looking for a hero of our time and, it seems, I have found him; the hero of our time is a demagogue.
- Never, not once in my life have I allowed myself to live a relaxed, lounging life.
- Both your prosecutor and everyone who is seriously involved in economics know very well that they are stealing.
- If someone said good and truthful words and was not heard, it means that he did not say them.
- It’s one thing to live and fight when there is somewhere to return, but another thing when there is nowhere to retreat.
- Good is a good deed, it is difficult, it is not easy. Do not boast of kindness, do not even do evil.
- The fool who walks down our street has more time—epoch—in him than in some minister.
- Why shame on those who imitate? No, glory to those who are imitated - they worked for the future.
- The person who gives wants to experience joy. Under no circumstances should this joy be taken away from him.
- The era of the great offensive of the burghers. And in the forefront of this terrible army are women. It's sad, but true.
- We should not forget about our souls, we should be a little kinder, we, with our speeds, would not forget that we are people.
- Truly great people are defined, among other things, by the fact that they tolerate dissidents around them.
- When we feel bad, we think: “But somewhere, someone is feeling good.” When we feel good, we rarely think: “Somewhere, someone is feeling bad.”
- A Russian person is helped in many ways by the awareness of this: there is still somewhere to retreat, there is somewhere to catch your breath, to gather your courage.
- There should never come a time when you have to give up and say that nothing can be done about it. It can always be done.
- Everything perishes: youth, charm, passions, everything grows old and collapses. A thought does not perish, and a wonderful person is the one who carries it through life.
- I view my entire life as a three-round battle: youth, maturity, old age. Two of these rounds must be won. I've already lost one.
- Don’t touch the army, don’t touch the police, don’t touch the party apparatus, don’t touch ministerial officials. Well, I won’t be a man myself. In Russia everyone is good.
- In three cases, I especially clearly understand that I am wasting my time: when I stand in line, when I read someone’s mediocre manuscript, when I sit in a meeting.
- There is always a desire to turn literature into sports competitions: who is shorter? Who is longer? Who is easier? Who is more difficult? Who is braver? And literature is truth. Revelation.
- Believe that everything was not in vain: our songs, our fairy tales, our incredible victories, our suffering - do not give all this for a sniff of tobacco. We knew how to live. Remember this. Be human.
- Nowhere else have I seen such clear, simple, complete expediency as in the home of my grandfather, a peasant, such natural, truthful, essentially kind relationships between people there.
- No mind, no truth, no real power, not a single living idea. But with what help do they rule us? There is only one explanation left - through our own stupidity. This is where our art needs to beat and beat.
