A Quote by Vladimir Sorokin

The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible citizen in me. I told myself that I was, after all, an artist.

Vladimir Sorokin

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Vladimir Sorokin
Russian - Writer
Born: August 7, 1955

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