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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Mince
Masterpiece
Ruins
Absolutes
Absolute
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Beautiful

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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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