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Them Quotes by Richard Russo
- I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be,…
- I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
- I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often…
- 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…
- I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy…
- America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
- 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.…
- The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild…
- 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…
- It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
- There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
- My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence…
- They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,
- What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster