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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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New York
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Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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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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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.
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I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
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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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The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
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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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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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