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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
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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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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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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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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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