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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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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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