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By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
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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