"It was sad and fierce all at once,……" — Karen Russell

"It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity."

— Karen Russell

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46 Quotes by Karen Russell

Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in…
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I…
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole…
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another,…
"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I…
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously…
Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,… — Marcus Aurelius
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up… — Michele Bachmann
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me… — James A. Baldwin
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful… — Travis Barker
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then… — Roseanne Barr
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr

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