WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:31:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Gorokhova, Elena – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Gorokhova, Elena -- A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir, ch. 13 (2010) https://wist.info/gorokhova-elena/52912/ https://wist.info/gorokhova-elena/52912/#respond Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:43:00 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=52912 The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.


Elena Gorokhova (b. 1955) Russo-American novelist, linguist, educator
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir, ch. 13 (2010)
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On the relationship between the Soviet government and media and the Soviet people. Sometimes attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. ]]> https://wist.info/gorokhova-elena/52912/feed/ 0 52912