One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

QUOTATION: Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.
ATTRIBUTION: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian novelist. Kuziomin, in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962, trans. 1963).