Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya cannot be called an ordinary writer; her stories touch on the most secret things in the soul of both a child and an adult. She is a person with an incredible destiny; she has lived all her life in defiance of everything, without giving up in the face of the hardships of fate.
For a very long time, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya wrote her works on the table, since they did not pass censorship. And at the peak of her career, Lyudmila Stefanovna was both an animator and musician. Petrushevskaya turned 83 years old at the end of May; in honor of this event, we recall the best quotes from the writer.
Sharp phrases
Collection title: Sharp phrases. You can tell a big man by the way he treats little people.
Happiness is when you don’t have free time to think about the meaning of life.
No two children are alike - especially if one of them is yours.
Nothing adorns a person more than friendship with one’s own head.
Flattery is an assistant to vices. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A conscientious doctor, before prescribing treatment to a patient, must find out not only his illness, but also his habits in a healthy state and the properties of his body. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hours go by, and I’m sad, I sit and see your image, you’re not nearby, but I’m so impatient to see you as soon as possible!
Weather and Love are the only things you can never be sure of.
Damn pride is getting in the way of my damn happiness
He who keeps his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles. Book of proverbs
Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Oscar Wilde
A true friend is the music of your life!
People flirt when they pretend that any kind of flirtation is alien to them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love for the fatherland, shame and fear of reproach are taming means that can restrain many crimes. Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov
In enmity, a friend is no different from an enemy. Menander
A friend is someone who has seen you without makeup, but still thinks you are beautiful;
If you make new friends, don't forget about the old ones. Erasmus of Rotterdam
My life depends on me...
It seems to me that people are completely unaware of the true power of love, for if they were aware of it, they would erect the greatest temples and altars to it and make the greatest sacrifices, and yet nothing of the kind is being done, although all this should be done first of all. Plato
Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Misner
A sex symbol is just a thing, and I hate being a thing. But if we’re going to be a symbol, it’s better to be a symbol of sex than anything else.
A gram of your own experience is worth more than a ton of other people’s instructions.
It's better to make news than to talk about it. Winston Churchill
If there were no women, men would be godlike beings. Thomas Dekker
Forgiveness means it's already over. Francoise Sagan
Before you have time to find the meaning of life, it has already been changed. George Carlin
All troubles can be divided into small - other people's and large - your own.
How much disappointment can one have in people to call a saw the word Friendship?
When we start talking about patriotism, it means that something was stolen somewhere...
The beloved has all the soul.
The taste of food is known to the one who eats; Only the one who is asked can answer; only the one who sleeps dreams; and for the villain the best example is the judge, who himself is worthy of trial.
Living does not mean breathing, it means acting. It is not the man who lived the most who can count the most years, but the one who felt life most. Jean Jacques Rousseau
People tend to look with angry eyes at new lucky ones and demand from no one as much moderation in the use of fortune as from those whom they saw as their equals. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The letter B is a symbol of dreams: Blonde, Bank, Bentley, Barvikha, Baden-Baden, Boeing, Diamonds... The letter A is harsh reality: - But no...
In fairness, we can say that the boss is the speaking law, and the law is the dumb boss. Marcus Tullius Cicero
God is our true friend: He knows everything about us and yet does not stop loving us. Toyshibekov.
Words have value as a pledge of deeds. Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Old age is strong thanks to the foundations laid in youth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who does not value life is unworthy of it. Leonardo da Vinci
I think I'm the greatest bodybuilder who ever lived. Franco Colombo
Squalor in love is willingly masked by the absence of someone worthy of love. Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest sensual pleasure, which does not contain any impurity or aversion, is, in a healthy state, rest after work. Immanuel Kant
Love grows from waiting for a long time and quickly fades away when it gets its way. Menander
It’s so good to just open your eyes and know that you exist! Good morning!
In a marriage, one of the spouses is usually stupid. But if two stupid people get married, it sometimes becomes a great success. Kurt Tucholsky
You are the closest and dearest to my heart and soul. Only with you it’s easy for me! Although you are not nearby, I only dream about you, because I love you so much!
In no passion does self-love reign so completely as in love: people are always ready to sacrifice the peace of a loved one in order to preserve their own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is debauchery in the home if the housewife likes to listen to various lies, and after listening, she tells them to her husband, and the husband believes it. Catherine II
The perfection of a warrior lies in vigilance, constant combat readiness, rigor, sincerity, and impenetrable calm.
He who asks timidly will ask for refusal. Seneca
Intoxication always lends a hand to us when we fail, when we weaken. Jack London
The radiant beauty of youth is diminished in its perfection by excessive and too elaborate ornaments. Leonardo da Vinci
Only those who love have the right to blame and scold. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Who longs for true love - Catch it in simple hearts. Pierre Ronsard
I've been kind of crazy lately. I should act in porn.
Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact.
In movement, strength grows and gains power. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most important thing in this case is not to get irritated and not to say a single unkind or offensive word. Epictetus
People often float with the flow of time. Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a rudder. Why doesn’t a person follow the waves, and not obey his own aspirations? Dante Alighieri
Our good qualities harm us more in life than bad ones. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The hardest thing to refuse and forget is not the person himself, but the dream that he gave, and you believed in it...
The qualities that people possess are not as funny as those that they claim to have. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even when he is not your friend, don’t give away your secrets.
We are insured against at least one thing: being deceived by ourselves. Karel Capek
A leader is like a merchant who has invested his money in a business and expects profit. Napoleon I Bonaparte
Let your body terribly tend to sleep, and then you will get down to any task! Good night.
What pity is worthy of a woman who is truly loving and, moreover, virtuous! Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...Pleasure should be the reward for work... Claude Adrian Helvetius
O my friends! There are no friends in the world! Aristotle
Anyone who learns without thinking falls into error. Anyone who thinks without wanting to learn will find himself in difficulty. Hong Zicheng
Morning will tell you best about meeting friends...
From arrogance comes discord, but from those who consult, wisdom comes. Book of proverbs
Not every misalliance produces beautiful children. Wilhelm Schwöbel
The law of the majority is valid in all cases except those related to conscience. Gandhi M.
I have everything... except your post on the VKontakte wall...
If in moments of sadness longing overcomes you, know that there is a Heart in the world that Loves You!
This morning I wish you confident vigor, high aspirations and unfailing good luck from the very morning!
Our love began at first sight.
Sharp phrases: A hypocrite is always a slave. Romain Rolland
Literature
While still at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya wrote comic poems and scripts for student evenings, but did not think about a film career as a writer at that time.
Dreams, when they come true, look like ordinary life. No happiness.
Life is richer than we think.
Where the fairy tale ends, a happy life begins.
It was only in 1970 that the short story “Across the Fields” was published for the first time. Lyudmila Stefanovna's next work was published in the second half of the eighties.
But theaters appreciated Petrushevskaya’s works. At the end of the seventies, Roman Viktyuk staged a production called “Music Lessons” on the stage of the Moskvorechye Palace of Culture, which was written back in 1973.
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Galina Vishnevskaya. Sharp remarks.
“I could not even imagine the size of the ruling class in the Soviet Union. Often, standing in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin Palace at the banquet table, littered with meter-long sturgeon, shiny hams, grainy caviar, and raising a crystal glass with everyone to the happy life of the Soviet people, I looked with curiosity at the swollen, flabby faces of the self-elected leaders of the state, diligently chewing, fervently destroying all these magnificent still lifes. I recalled my recent wanderings across a huge country, with its monstrous way of life, impassable dirt and the unimaginably low, literally beggarly standard of living of the people, and could not help thinking that these people, intoxicated with power, smug, stupefied from food and drink, were, in essence, living in another a state they built for themselves, for a horde of thousands, inside conquered Russia, exploiting its poor, angry people for their own needs. They have their own closed grocery and manufactured goods stores, tailoring and shoe shops, with hefty bouncers-guards at the doors, where everything is of the highest quality and at prices much lower than the official prices for the people. They live in magnificent free apartments and dachas with a whole staff of servants, all have cars with a driver, and not only for them, but also for family members. At their service are former royal palaces in the Crimea and the Caucasus, converted especially for them into sanatoriums, their own hospitals, rest homes... Their own “internal state” has everything. Sincerely believing in their divine exclusivity, they arrogantly and disdainfully do not mix with the life of Soviet smerds, reliably fenced off from them with high, impenetrable fences of state-owned dachas. In theaters there are separate boxes for them with a special exit to the street, and even during intermissions they do not go out into the foyer, so as not to humiliate themselves to communicate with slaves.” (G.P. Vishnevskaya (1926-2012) “Galina. Life story.” 1984)
A little from the biography: “Galina Pavlovna’s mother Zinaida Antonovna Ivanova (1906-1950) came from a Polish-Gypsy family. She was a singer by nature and played the guitar, which was passed on to her daughter. Finding herself in Kronstadt with her grandmother because of her mother’s divorce from her husband, who was not Galina’s father, the girl began to try her naturally trained voice. ... in 1942, when Galina was left alone, a commission to search for living people accidentally looked into the apartment. This saved the life of a 16-year-old girl, who was given the opportunity to join the women's air defense unit. During her military service, the young singer took an active part in military concerts held in the forts of Kronstadt, on ships, and on sites near dugouts.
Singing with an orchestra during the terrible years of the war not only helped the future opera soloist strengthen her spirit and withstand the blockade, but also further develop her vocal and artistic abilities. After graduating from the Leningrad Music School for Adults named after. Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov in 1944. Galina sang in the choir of the operetta theater. Having entered the Leningrad Philharmonic three years later, the artist alternated between classical and pop singing, studying since 1951 with the eighty-year-old teacher V.N. Garina. Personal life. The artist entered into her first short marriage at the age of 17. In 1944 she met a sailor, but after 4 months they divorced. Galina remained with his sonorous surname until the end of her days.
After 2 years, the director of the Leningrad Opera Theater, Mark Rubin, married Vishnevskaya, 22 years older than Galina. Vishnevskaya's first child was her son Ilya, who died as an infant. Galina's difficult married life ended in divorce 10 years after the singer met the famous conductor Mstislav Rostropovich.
The meeting of talented people was the last for the two. In 1955 they officially became spouses. The musicians gave birth to two daughters, calling them Olga and Elena. Having lived happily together for 52 years, they often performed together, touring the world. The love story of the star couple is described in the documentary “Two in the World. Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich", which was released in 2009 after the death of the famous cellist (March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007)."
For 20 years, the singer was engaged in teaching. Having established the Galina Vishnevskaya Center for Opera Singing in Moscow in 2002, the singer was its director. Quotes: “Separate apartment! To live without neighbors, to escape from the damned commune is the ultimate dream of any Soviet person. While wandering around government banquets, of course, I could beg it from one of the leaders, clinking glasses of vodka with them. But I would rather bite off my tongue than stoop to begging from arrogant idols, and I kept waiting for the theater to provide me with some kind of housing: the management knew the conditions in which I lived. But the eternal housing crisis in the country has led to the fact that even at the Bolshoi Theater, when hiring artists, they are warned that the theater does not provide living space. Who the hell provides then? After all, there are no private owners - everything belongs to the state! But spin around as you want: make the right acquaintances, give a bribe or pay in kind, that is, simply sleep with whoever you need. Once upon a time, the directorate had the opportunity to make requests personally to Stalin - to the Boss, but now some kind of collective leadership was already looming ahead, and then you had to figure out who to ask for housing for newly arriving soloists, but the new government had no time for the theater - there was a struggle for power. Therefore, at the Bolshoi Theater until the end of the sixties there was a dormitory where young opera and ballet soloists lived for years, several people in one room. If a young married couple was admitted to the theater, the husband lived in a common room for men, and the wife lived in a common room for women. Naturally, the marriage often ended in divorce. Due to the eternal housing problem, there are many crippled lives in the theater: not having a corner in her youth, a woman could not get married, have a family, or children.” “In pre-revolutionary Russia, in any average, financially secure family, children were taught music and, of course, a foreign language. This was part of the child's general education. People often gathered in houses to play music. Regardless of age, a person could visit paid private studios of famous artists to practice painting, sculpture, singing - not in order to necessarily become a professional, but to satisfy his spiritual needs, for general cultural development. To learn to understand art and enjoy it. It happened that such activities suddenly opened up creative possibilities in a person that he had not even suspected before. The famous Russian singer Antonina Nezhdanova was a provincial teacher and began her singing career after 30 years. And the great Russian tenor Leonid Sobinov was a lawyer. In the villages, the musical development of children went through the church. By always attending services with their parents and listening to choral singing there, children began to show their natural singing and musical abilities early and went to sing in the church choir. Being nourished spiritually through the beauty and sublimity of Orthodox prayer chants, through the word addressed to God, children intuitively strove into the world of beauty and, which is so important for art, from childhood they learned to open up emotionally in singing, without being embarrassed by large crowds of people. Almost all the great singers of Russia have passed through church choirs.” “Often, sitting in a box and listening to some performance, I watched the audience in the hall: what tired, meaningless faces! No interest in what is happening on stage. Artists are not applauded. They don't need this art. The lack of a culturally prepared audience in the theater led to the uselessness of outstanding conductors and outstanding vocalists. The public does not understand, does not distinguish between who is conducting today and who was conducting yesterday. She doesn't feel the quality. How much must an artist do his best on stage in order to shake up this tired, uninterested person in anything and make him listen to the performance and empathize! Therefore, the main thing in the opera was not the music, but the words spoken accompanied by music in order to convey the meaning and content of the performance. Hence the dramatization of Soviet art, exaggerated emotions, exaggerated words, gestures, forcing voices. Everything has to be stronger than it needs to be, otherwise the public won't understand you. When Soviet singers travel abroad, they are often criticized for their internal pressure, exaggerated playing, the harshness of their voices, and the lack of cantilena and vocal musical phrasing in their singing. But this is our style, this is the style of the Soviet theater. It is no coincidence that the music of Vivaldi, Handel, and Haydn is performed so little in Russia; they don’t stage Mozart’s operas, and in all the twenty-two years that I sang at the Bolshoi Theater, only “The Marriage of Figaro” was performed on this stage. Because you need to listen to such pure music not with your nerves stretched to the limit and a party reprimand in your brain, but sitting calmly in an armchair, surrendering to the bliss of perceiving eternal beauty.” “No matter what smoky dugout or wretched, broken club we performed, always an hour and a half before the start of the performance, the artists began to make up and dress as carefully as if they were about to appear on the most brilliant of stages...
Here I realized that art is not crinolines, not fabulously happy kings and queens, but hard, exhausting work. And if you want to be a great actress, you have to be prepared for many, many sacrifices.” About women: “ I am convinced that in order for a woman to look brilliant all her life, she needs a good, reliable husband, whom she could be proud of and walk with her head held high.” “The most important thing is not to give way to despair.” “If you want to do something, then first think - do you want to rise up or fall down.” “Temperament is the ability to restrain oneself.” About myself: “My parents didn’t live together, my grandmother raised me and affectionately called me “orphan.” Drunkenness and the street were constantly before my eyes. That’s precisely why I tried my best not to repeat the unpleasant experience. When I started a family, I began to raise my children completely differently. My daughters are my closest people. I can tell them absolutely everything and no one else. My husband has changed me a lot. After all, Slava had another family. His father and mother were musicians, they loved him very much. Slava lived in different conditions. With him I became a softer woman. And before we met, she was harsh, sometimes even rude. This all comes from a difficult childhood, from loneliness, from the war. I was left alone during the blockade in Leningrad. My grandmother died, they found me barely alive. We had to survive, fight at all costs! Dreams helped. I imagined how the war would end and how I would sing on stage.”
