Showing posts with label Varlam Shalamov. Show all posts
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Beers & Books XCVI – Varlam Shalamov

“I discovered
that the world should be divided
not into good and bad people
but into cowards and non-cowards.
Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable
of the vilest things, lethal things,
at the mildest threat.”


Varlam Shalamov (18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982)