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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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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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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
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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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Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
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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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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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