"I came to hate the complainers, with their……" — Karen Russell
"I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings."
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46 Quotes by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site.
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In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in…
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I…
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole…
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Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another,…
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"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I…
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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously…
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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
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The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk…
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More Breadth Quotes
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
— Irving Babbitt
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on…
— Benjamin Carson
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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and…
— Margaret Cho
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To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each…
— Unknown Author
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies.…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them…
— Unknown Author
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can;…
— Aesop
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The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with…
— Malcolm Forbes
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