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" The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. "

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" People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. "

" I'm attracted to the past. "

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" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

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" It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. "

" The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. "

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" In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?' "

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