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I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Karen Russell

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Karen Russell
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 10
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Miami
Florida
Disconcerting
Natures
Encounter
Peoples
Encounters
True
Real
Something

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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
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America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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For me, the term literary fiction means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
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Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
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A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
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Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
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Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.
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I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.
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Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.
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