Quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko

Sergei Lukyanenko

A car’s not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed’s the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

Car

Girl

Mistake

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

Book

Challenges

Interesting

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Book

Language

Sometimes

All we can do is try not to fall.

Can Do

Fall

Trying

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors’ pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

Book

Drinking

Philosophical

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

Beautiful

Children

Crazy

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it’s more profitable to slaughter them.

People

Sheep

Simple

At home the very walls lend you strength.

Home

Wall

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Great Power

Love Is

Should

Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or “the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children.”Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

Children

Love Is

Sex

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Action

Adventure

Age

Anton Gorodetsky

Beautiful

Beer

Believe

Book

Born

Boys

Brain

Buzz

Calm

Can Do

Car

Challenges

Chance

Character

Children

Coffee

Coincidence

Common

Common Good

Crazy

Cutting

Cynical

Dark

Demon

Destiny

Differences

Different

Drinking

Enemy

Essence

Evil

Exception

Fairy Tale

Fall

Falling In Love

Fats

Fear

Fighting

Flames

Fleeting

Forgiving

Friendly

Gestures

Girl

Giving

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Quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko

Sergei Lukyanenko

A car’s not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed’s the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

All we can do is try not to fall.

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it’s more profitable to slaughter them.

At home the very walls lend you strength.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

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