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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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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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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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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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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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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
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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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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
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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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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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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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