Richard Russo Quotes

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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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  Life, Opportunity, Another Chance

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Apr 27, 2014

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

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  Mistake, People, Loyal

  Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.157, Atlantic Books

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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Parent

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 21, 2013

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• After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

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  Heart, People, Desire

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• You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

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  Pain, Simple, Use

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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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  Expression, People, Use

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• 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?

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  Simple, What If, New Friendship

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 02, 2012

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• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

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  Library, Bookstores, World

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

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  Trying, Knows, Ifs

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• People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

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  Destiny, Cities, People

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• Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

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  Theme

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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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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  Doors, Waiting

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

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  Heart, World, Leap

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.390, Atlantic Books

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

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  Adventure, Middle, Middle Ground

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.8, Atlantic Books

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• Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

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  Graduation, Be Kind, Tire

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• There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

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  World, Sin, This World

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• Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

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  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

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  Class, Theme, Endure

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• Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

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  Past, Focus, Odd

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• Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

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  Tasks, Overwhelming, Smallest

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• They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

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  Scary, Leaving, Easier

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• What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

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  Travel, Home, Interesting

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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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  Judging, Ability, Capability

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.296, Atlantic Books

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• It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

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  Book, Secret, Trying

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• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

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  Thinking, People, Cost

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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