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I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

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Feelings, Library, Ifs

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He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.

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Summer, Memories, Kissing

FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016

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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

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Lying, Reason, Fallacy

Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.92, Atlantic Books

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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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Feelings, Barrels, Crabs

FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012

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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

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Writing, Thinking, Risk

"Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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

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Knowing, Two, Different

Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.138, Atlantic Books

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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

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America, Losing, Small Places

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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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Skills, Information, Grids

Richard Russo (2017). “Risk Pool”, p.154, Atlantic Books

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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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Choices, Possibility, Right Thing To Say

Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.137, Atlantic Books

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I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

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Thinking, Stories, World

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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

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Heart, Knives, Hilarity

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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.

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Book, Thinking, Trying

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Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

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Feelings, Different, Hints

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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

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Comedy, Jokes, Ifs

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I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

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Disappointment, Good Woman, Terrible

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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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Self, People, Details

Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.204, Atlantic Books

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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

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Answers, Substitutes

Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.95, Atlantic Books

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I can be glib and truthful all at once.

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Truthful, I Can

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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

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Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

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Beautiful, Ruins, Masterpiece

"Jess Walter" by Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. August 6, 2012.

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I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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Running, Worry, Dry

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Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

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Smart, Ambitious, Safe

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I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

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Writing, Thinking, Views

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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.

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Book, Hard Times, Order

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Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

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Fun, Looks, Oscars

"Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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