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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
- Ian Frazier
#Freedom
#Hate
#See
#Will
#Wonder
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
- Ian Frazier
#Country
#God
#Me
#Myself
#Romantic
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
- Ian Frazier
#Across
#Only
#Person
#Saw
#Way
I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
- Ian Frazier
#Friends
#Great
#Russia
#See
#Time
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
- Ian Frazier
#Everything
#Fence
#Light
#Phone
#Russia
Siberia is a state of mind.
- Ian Frazier
#Mind
#Siberia
#State
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
- Ian Frazier
#Even
#Know
#Like
#Song
#Words
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
- Ian Frazier
#Needed
#Really
#Think
#Tree
#Upset
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
- Ian Frazier
#Drive
#Find
#Great
#Real
#Way
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
- Ian Frazier
#Book
#Forever
#Me
#Own
#Writing
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
- Ian Frazier
#Believe
#Crazy
#I Believe
#Life
#Man
I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
- Ian Frazier
#Challenge
#Dad
#Funny
#Losing
#More
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
- Ian Frazier
#Idea
#Middle
#Nowhere
#Place
#Something
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
- Ian Frazier
#Building
#Days
#Nice
#Start
#Want
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
- Ian Frazier
#Funny
#Humor
#Me
#More
#Wait
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
- Ian Frazier
#Day
#Humor
#Look
#Will
#Work
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
- Ian Frazier
#Chance
#Funny
#Humor
#Things
#Yourself
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
- Ian Frazier
#Disregard
#Humor
#Pieces
#Reader
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
- Ian Frazier
#Adapt
#Deep
#Humor
#People
#Russia
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
- Ian Frazier
#Adapt
#Humor
#Insanity
#Make
#Nonsense
#Sense
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