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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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 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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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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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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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