Turgenev quotes

I started out very quiet and I beat MrTurgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one.But nobody's going to get me in any ring with MrTolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  In the NewYorker,13 May.