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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
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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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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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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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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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