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Today, eternal concepts have b...

Today, eternal concepts have been completely devalued: if 'authority' is only criminal, if 'leader' is only political. We used to rush towards communism, now towards enrichment. Both are ghosts. Boutiques were opened all around, musicals were staged. In everything, Western second-rateness is strung on Russian reality. And the more expensive, the more secondary.

Alexander Schirvindt

... we most likely will not ha...

... we most likely will not have another time. Therefore, we must live in the present time, without deceiving ourselves in any way.

Alexander Schirvindt

I don't even know which side t...

I don't even know which side they are plugged into and where... When my little grandchildren played at the computer, I nodded thoughtfully to them, not even understanding what it was about. Until now, a computer mouse for me is something alive and scary, like a rat, and the word 'site' is associated with something urinal. Therefore, when you need to go to the site, they put me in front of the screen, like a doll, and show

Alexander Schirvindt

A tasty meal for me is mashed ...

A tasty meal for me is mashed potatoes, sprats, buckwheat porridge with sour cream (cold buckwheat porridge is eaten with milk, and hot with sour cream). I love cheese. Stone, strong-strong, \'Soviet\', similar to \'Parmesan\'. I also love processed cheese \'Druzhba\' ... I was brought up in Spartan conditions of drinking and gatherings in the kitchens. In the garage, on the hood of the car, a newspaper was laid out, liver sausage, a loaf, a cucumber were quickly cut. Fuck! And right away it's good. When I go to fancy restaurants today...they bring me thick leather-bound menus...I get heartburn right away. It used to be easier in restaurants too: you quickly smear bread with mustard, top it with lard sprinkled with salt, wave it under a glass - and you are already 'primed'. Well, then you order what they can get in their bins

Alexander Schirvindt

Well, they say obscene languag...

Well, they say obscene language, you can't express yourself ... Of course, if they swear, swear - this is terrible! And I speak like that, I have such a language. I didn't study obscene English. You need to know the language of the country you live in. And I speak the language of my country.

Alexander Schirvindt

Our generation was censored, b...

Our generation was censored, but if you think about it, then there was also a huge team of editors, erudite, amazingly subtle people who did not allow anything 'below the belt' to come out - both literally and figuratively. And now sculpt - whatever you want, if you bought the ether. Of course, there are talents - the same phenomenal Maxim Galkin, or my beloved Vanka Urgant, whom I have known since childhood, or Yura Galtsev, but they also work without a qualification, and, in addition, they are obliged to produce humor around the clock, which is why they involuntarily begin to taste failures. They themselves understand this, but now there is such a rating competition that you can't joke for half an hour - they can forget. The race for round the clock leads to meaninglessness.

Alexander Schirvindt

'I always try to convey a simp...

'I always try to convey a simple truth to students: they will not have anything happier than these four years in an incubator. Then creative torments, envy, intrigues, games of chance will begin, therefore, while studying, absorbing everything that is possible - it would be from someone, you need to use your happiness to the fullest.

Alexander Schirvindt

Shakespeare was absolutely rig...

Shakespeare was absolutely right: the world is a theater! For example, I watch a meeting of the Duma and see deputies who have been sitting in this hall for years and do not open their mouths. What are they needed for? Why are they sitting there? And then I realize that this is a crowd. Theater is impossible without extras. This theatricality of existence concerns not only the Duma, but absolutely all spheres of our life.

Alexander Schirvindt

Natalia Nikolaevna and I were ...

Natalia Nikolaevna and I were in love too old-fashioned. 50th year. This is the middle of the last century. Wow ... So our love included all these innocent \'rhyorites\', bonfires in companies, country gatherings with dances and charades, tender sighs in the moonlight ... Well, who can be interested in these dilapidated relationships now, when from the pages of magazines and on TV we learn about real, passionate love among jacuzzis, yachts and pools, born under the scorching equatorial sun of the Bahamas.

Alexander Schirvindt

I can't say that in my life I ...

I can't say that in my life I got a 'lucky ticket'. But in some basic things: parents, family, marriage, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren - everything is very nice and happy with me. Although, of course, it is suspicious.

Alexander Schirvindt

They say that in the family th...

They say that in the family there should be complete unity. In fact, I think it's the other way around. My wife is an architect, now retired, but she used to be quite famous in her field, she worked a lot, she has her own friends ... She doesn't really know what I do, and this is very important. Well, theater, premieres ... Wives who dissolve in their husbands - probably this is very good and a great help. But, I think, in the end, you can go crazy with it - when someone constantly dissolves in you. But parallel existence is air: she has her own creativity, I have mine. It turns out that not around the clock nose to nose. So it goes on for many years...

Alexander Schirvindt

Modern man experiences a huge ...

Modern man experiences a huge lack of love and tenderness and turns into a robot. The soul is atrophied - it is an unnecessary organ. There is no need to talk about me personally - everything that concerns love, affection and tenderness, I have long passed.

Alexander Schirvindt

One good doctor put my mind at...

One good doctor put my mind at ease. 'Dates are all nonsense. A person's age, he said, is determined not by dates, but by his being. Sometimes, for a very short time, I happen to be somewhere in the region of 20 years. And sometimes I'm under 100.

Alexander Schirvindt

Cowardice is the sister of pan...

Cowardice is the sister of panic. I am not afraid of death. I am afraid for my loved ones. I'm afraid of accidents for friends. I'm afraid to look old. I'm afraid of gradual dying, when I have to grab onto something and someone ... 'Our Everything' wrote very correctly: 'My uncle of the most honest rules, when he fell seriously ill ...' Being young, I thought that this was a preamble and nothing more. Now I understand that this is the most important thing in the novel.

Alexander Schirvindt

With age, everything concentra...

With age, everything concentrates in a person - all the parameters of the mind and heart. But there is also physiology, by the age of 80 it dominates all parameters. When you neither sit down nor stand up, then everything obeys this, and \'physics\' begins to dictate. When you get up, and the knee does not unbend, then you become stingy, and angry, and greedy. And at the same time. And if the knee is miraculously unbent, then everything is ready to give, nothing to regret.

For the first time I understood the meaning of the expression \'weak in the knees\' about twenty years ago - it turns out that this is when, firstly, they hurt, secondly, they do not bend well and, thirdly, they become weak. I turned to two familiar luminaries on the knees - both gave diametrically opposite recommendations, and decided to wear the knees in this form, because I can't afford new ones.

Alexander Schirvindt

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