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Russell Banks Quotes

The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
Russell Banks
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Born:
March 28, 1940
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.
Paul Theroux
don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
Jack Kerouac
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Madeleine Albright
I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.
Howard Dean
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande