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Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
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