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I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Glib
Truthful

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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
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After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
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Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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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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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
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To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.
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