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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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 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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
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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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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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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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One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
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