Once, quite a number of years ago, Evgeniy Tarasov wrote: “It’s easy to quote, it’s hard to put quotation marks!” And then, perhaps, in order to eliminate this difficulty, he began... to quote himself! True, hiding (mainly in the Krokodil magazine) in the difficult 80s behind the names of famous and not very historical figures. And although he himself later wrote: “Another thought is so original that it cannot be expressed in words,” he managed not only to express, but also to write down many funny and even paradoxical thoughts. Including those included in this unusual collection.