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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?
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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