One day in the life of ivan denisovich Quotes

“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest?”

“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest?”

“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”

“Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.”

“Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier – here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home.”

“Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.”

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”

“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality”