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Richard Russo Quotes

Richard Russo quotes

American Novelist July 15, 1949

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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
The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship,..."
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. Richard Russo
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity."Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad. Richard Russo
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at..."
She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched. Richard Russo
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? Richard Russo
Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to the idea of profound human tragedy. They were reluctant to give it up, Sully could tell. He smiled apologetically at the crowd. Richard Russo
He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you..."
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's..."
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. Richard Russo
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. Richard Russo
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. Richard Russo

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