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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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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
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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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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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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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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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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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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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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