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Richard Russo Quotes

Richard Russo quotes about life

American Novelist July 15, 1949

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And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. Richard Russo
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go. Richard Russo
That man truly loathes you," Herbert says when he's sure Rourke isn't coming back. "I don't think so," I smile. "I just give his life focus, that's all. Richard Russo
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 imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up. Richard Russo
The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband. Richard Russo
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 occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more..."
Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you? Sully: Not often. Now and then. Richard Russo
Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the..."
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to..."
Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt of it. Richard Russo

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