Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or attempt:
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)