"Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place……" — Karen Russell
"Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose."
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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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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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And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a…
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More Choose Quotes
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
— Richard Bach
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Francis Bacon
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between…
— Erykah Badu
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
— Erykah Badu
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
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