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It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
Russell Banks
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Russell Banks
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 28
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I'm seventy-six now. I'm at a stage in my life where I feel a lot of affection and regard for women, and I felt the need to make this clear in some way. I don't know how they'll feel when they read it, but I feel okay about it.
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Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
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Nobody does anything for one reason.
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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
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I am not a ventriloquist.
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One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
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Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
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Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.
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There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
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The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.
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Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
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Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
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Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
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