Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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• Joseph Brodsky:

  For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Man is what he reads.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Bad literature is a form of treason.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

• Joseph Brodsky:

  Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than b

• Joseph Brodsky:

  The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.