A fellow judge, writer Colin Thubron, joked that too many books were heralded by their publishers as the “best novel since Tolstoy”. Thubron said: “There are certain blurbs and quotes from authors if you don’t love this book, or you’ve Mr Thubron said: “There are certain blurbs and quotes from other authors which do raise your expectations, that almost blackmail you into feeling that you’re either intellectually or morally incompetent if you don’t love this book.” “Or you’ve “Dear Grandma, I keep not dying,” one child writes; elsewhere, a teenager states: “I have promised not to make love to any girls until we have falls into a long tradition — Tolstoy, Vasily Grossman — of sentimental Russian histories; a .
Gallery of tolstoy quotes on love:
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