Draws Quote by Russell Banks

“Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.”

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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

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“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.”

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“Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of…

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an…

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“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.”

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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out…

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“my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in…

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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with…

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So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

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“They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when I saw Russ for the last time, I saw clearly for the first time that loving Sister Rose and I-Man and even Bruce had left me with riches that I could draw on for the rest…

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“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

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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…

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When I talked to him earlier, he said he had to work tonight,” Peter explained, “but that we should go ahead and draw for him.” “Draw?” I asked uneasily. “Oh Lord. Tell me it’s not Pictionary night too.” Peter sighed wearily. “Draw for secret Santas. Do you even read the e-mails I send?” “Secret Santas? Seems like we just did…

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