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Top 30 Boris Fishman Quotes (2025 Update)

Boris Fishman Quote: “Her eyes blazed; she looked as if she wanted to strike him. He wished she would. Instead, a gust of something corrective swept her face clean, and again she looked loving.”

1. “Her eyes blazed; she looked as if she wanted to strike him. He wished she would. Instead, a gust of something corrective swept her face clean, and again she looked loving.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once.”

2. “They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.”

3. “Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Slava had never had animals, but he liked the cat. In the moments when he and Arianna didn’t know how to be warm to each other, they could be warm to the animal.”

4. “Slava had never had animals, but he liked the cat. In the moments when he and Arianna didn’t know how to be warm to each other, they could be warm to the animal.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “The bed was empty when he awoke. A note was taped to the bathroom mirror. “Did we? We should. XOXO.”

5. “The bed was empty when he awoke. A note was taped to the bathroom mirror. “Did we? We should. XOXO.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.”

6. “A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city’s special combination of curiosity and resentment.”

7. “They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city’s special combination of curiosity and resentment.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “One night, unable to sleep, I tiptoed into the hallway and overheard my grandfather telling a table of acquaintances about the expensive Armenian cognac with which he had once plied the surgeon who was going to remove my grandmother’s gallbladder the next morning. They drank so much tat the surgeon was still drunk when he picked up the scalpel. The table roared, though my grandmother did not.”

8. “One night, unable to sleep, I tiptoed into the hallway and overheard my grandfather telling a table of acquaintances about the expensive Armenian cognac with which he had once plied the surgeon who was going to remove my grandmother’s gallbladder the next morning. They drank so much tat the surgeon was still drunk when he picked up the scalpel. The table roared, though my grandmother did not.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “He chortled at himself in disgusted amusement. Then noted that he had been communicating with himself at a more frequent rate.”

9. “He chortled at himself in disgusted amusement. Then noted that he had been communicating with himself at a more frequent rate.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “At the wheel, Hamid Abdul was trying not to watch them. Hamid, his immigrant brother. How Slava was exceeding his immigrant brief with this fine-skinned American specimen. See Slava take the milk of this American skin into his mouth, Hamid. Look at her fingers disappear from your rearview mirror. We are miscegenating with the natives, Hamid, we are assimilating, are we not?”

10. “At the wheel, Hamid Abdul was trying not to watch them. Hamid, his immigrant brother. How Slava was exceeding his immigrant brief with this fine-skinned American specimen. See Slava take the milk of this American skin into his mouth, Hamid. Look at her fingers disappear from your rearview mirror. We are miscegenating with the natives, Hamid, we are assimilating, are we not?”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “But if Slava wished to become an American, to strip from his writing the pollution that refilled it every time he returned to the swamp broth of Soviet Brooklyn, if Slava Gelman – immigrant, baby barbarian, the forking road spread-eagled before him – wished to write for Century, he would have to get away. Dialyze himself, like Grandmother’s kidneys.”

11. “But if Slava wished to become an American, to strip from his writing the pollution that refilled it every time he returned to the swamp broth of Soviet Brooklyn, if Slava Gelman – immigrant, baby barbarian, the forking road spread-eagled before him – wished to write for Century, he would have to get away. Dialyze himself, like Grandmother’s kidneys.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Iosif Abramson. Date of birth, date of death. The tea was bitter and he blamed existence.’” He.”

12. “Iosif Abramson. Date of birth, date of death. The tea was bitter and he blamed existence.’” He.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “They were their parents’ and grandparents’ children. They did what they were told, parents or muggers, as they had been taught. Compliance with instructions – just say what the rules were – was as molecularly satisfying as a cool plum on a hot day. When he was little, the satisfaction of it reached to the part of Slava that burned when the tea he was drinking was too hot.”

13. “They were their parents’ and grandparents’ children. They did what they were told, parents or muggers, as they had been taught. Compliance with instructions – just say what the rules were – was as molecularly satisfying as a cool plum on a hot day. When he was little, the satisfaction of it reached to the part of Slava that burned when the tea he was drinking was too hot.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye.”

14. “Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “He never pays enough attention to anything for it to touch him.”

15. “He never pays enough attention to anything for it to touch him.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.”

16. “Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.”

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Boris Fishman Quote: “It’s got that silence of ours. That terrible Russian silence that the Americans don’t understand. They are always making noise because they need to forget life is going to end. But we remember, and so we have silence, even when we’re shouting and laughing.”

17. “It’s got that silence of ours. That terrible Russian silence that the Americans don’t understand. They are always making noise because they need to forget life is going to end. But we remember, and so we have silence, even when we’re shouting and laughing.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “She breathed heavily, like a figure skater just off the ice.”

18. “She breathed heavily, like a figure skater just off the ice.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “What if I’d never left, like Oksana’s son, like the young man on the bus? Would I be married and a father by my early twenties, like most of the men here, or was my untraditional living – untraditional by Oksana’s judgment, at least – an intrinsic quality, and would it be my destiny anywhere? If the latter, what kind of outcast would it have made me in Minsk? Or would it have been rubbed out of me the way it had been rubbed out of my father?”

19. “What if I’d never left, like Oksana’s son, like the young man on the bus? Would I be married and a father by my early twenties, like most of the men here, or was my untraditional living – untraditional by Oksana’s judgment, at least – an intrinsic quality, and would it be my destiny anywhere? If the latter, what kind of outcast would it have made me in Minsk? Or would it have been rubbed out of me the way it had been rubbed out of my father?”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “The rehearsal of Grandfather’s arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava.”

20. “The rehearsal of Grandfather’s arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava.”

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Boris Fishman Quote: “It was the militsionery guarding him who were frightening. Slava had expected them to be young, crisp, and clean-skinned, but they were heavy men with slow, drunk eyes ringed by ripples of fat.”

21. “It was the militsionery guarding him who were frightening. Slava had expected them to be young, crisp, and clean-skinned, but they were heavy men with slow, drunk eyes ringed by ripples of fat.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “He dozed off only when the familiar dark blue started coming into the sky. His head teemed with strange pictures and sounds: a man washing himself from a well, his coarse shirt and suspenders hung over his legs; a gray military truck rumbling over a rutted country road; the high ping of a shot in the woods.”

22. “He dozed off only when the familiar dark blue started coming into the sky. His head teemed with strange pictures and sounds: a man washing himself from a well, his coarse shirt and suspenders hung over his legs; a gray military truck rumbling over a rutted country road; the high ping of a shot in the woods.”

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Boris Fishman Quote: “No one was dead, but her son would not call just to call. She’d had to enter intimate terms with this new understanding in her life, like an illness.”

23. “No one was dead, but her son would not call just to call. She’d had to enter intimate terms with this new understanding in her life, like an illness.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Slava’s father had been made docile by his parents-in-law, though he kicked the television once because why did these people control their lives.”

24. “Slava’s father had been made docile by his parents-in-law, though he kicked the television once because why did these people control their lives.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Now, in the conference room, he felt the familiar sensation of being in the presence of information obvious to all but himself.”

25. “Now, in the conference room, he felt the familiar sensation of being in the presence of information obvious to all but himself.”

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Boris Fishman Quote: “What does it take?” “What difference does it make?” Peter said. “You don’t like what I write, anyway.” Slava, confronted with the truth, said nothing. “There’s a style,” Peter said. “It’s not your style.” “I want it to be my style,” Slava said. “You don’t,” Peter said. “Otherwise, it would be.”

26. “What does it take?” “What difference does it make?” Peter said. “You don’t like what I write, anyway.” Slava, confronted with the truth, said nothing. “There’s a style,” Peter said. “It’s not your style.” “I want it to be my style,” Slava said. “You don’t,” Peter said. “Otherwise, it would be.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Can’t I?” he said. “Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant’s head.” He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.”

27. “Can’t I?” he said. “Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant’s head.” He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Even an iridescent pigeon at Slava’s feet – as a flying creature, arguably prone to curiosity about the gentleman invading its airspace – was more concerned with a triangle of pizza on the ground, approaching it as shyly as a girl at a dance.”

28. “Even an iridescent pigeon at Slava’s feet – as a flying creature, arguably prone to curiosity about the gentleman invading its airspace – was more concerned with a triangle of pizza on the ground, approaching it as shyly as a girl at a dance.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Our great realizations are slow dishes, but once they’re ready, they announce themselves as suddenly as an oven timer.”

29. “Our great realizations are slow dishes, but once they’re ready, they announce themselves as suddenly as an oven timer.”

— Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman Quote: “Cooking food in a restaurant is not that different from cooking at home, except for the speed with which you must do it while minding a slew of other time sensitive tasks, all in a very small, very hot kitchen. But that difference was my salvation.”

30. “Cooking food in a restaurant is not that different from cooking at home, except for the speed with which you must do it while minding a slew of other time sensitive tasks, all in a very small, very hot kitchen. But that difference was my salvation.”

— Boris Fishman

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