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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
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Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
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To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
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