Richard Russo Short Quotes

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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

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Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

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He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

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Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

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Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

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You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

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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.

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It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

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I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

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To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

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The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

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The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

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I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

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That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

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One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

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