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f098f20	they were dreamers who felt no urgency about bringing their dreams to fruition.			Richard Russo
978119b	she couldn't quite see herself in it. When they were done, I read the Shakespeare sonnet that begins "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun," partly because it was appropriate to the occasion and one of the most beautiful poems in the language, but also because I hoped it might hide from my loved ones the fact that I myself had nothing to say, that while part of me was here with them on this beloved shore, another part was wandering, as it had b..			Richard Russo
3775e6f	We do not want what's good for us.			Richard Russo
daa7a98	A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason--if any was needed--to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside.			Richard Russo
84bdf57	La forma mas rapida de engendrar un nuevo deseo es satisfacer uno antiguo.			Richard Russo
c608e56	he always had the last word in all differences of opinion with his wife, and that--two words, actually--was, "Yes, dear."			Richard Russo
71028f4	Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?			Richard Russo
8ecbf88	most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.			Richard Russo
c0e2ddf	That she should so puzzled him that he even questioned his behavior, entertaining, albeit briefly, the idea that he might in some fashion be responsible for the apparition of his once loving wife, who had faithfully awaited his return from overseas, now calmly and purposefully blasting away, without visible remorse, in the general direction of his life and property. They			Richard Russo
486797e	You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out."			Richard Russo
4996685	The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here			Richard Russo
da393d1	people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It			Richard Russo
92a7c68	Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,			Richard Russo
0299e95	It always amazed me how little he understood what I was feeling. It meant, among other things, that my understanding of him probably wasn't much better.			Richard Russo
650e1df	Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In"			Richard Russo
dc77895	witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.			Richard Russo
6d23efd	No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.			Richard Russo
f48f206	Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where			Richard Russo
7e3999f	Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que habia olvidado algo era uno de los placeres mas infravalorados de la vida.Cuantas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier lugar con Becka, ella habia tenido que volver atras porque se habia dejado algo encima de la mesa de la cocina. Un habito molesto, si, pero que maravilloso era cuando la veia reaparecer, que dulce saber que no se habia ido para siempre. Hasta el dia..		espera mujer	Richard Russo
4b47114	Lest it seem that I was neglected, I should point out that once I became known to the Mohawk Grill crowd, it was like having about two dozen more or less negligent fathers whose slender attentions and vague goodwill nevertheless added up.			Richard Russo
0f97e93	Protection was my strong suit. I needed something to be protected from. I			Richard Russo
bdcb6d5	Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries--the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another.			Richard Russo
74afb6f	Here was a wish from another lifetime, granted twenty-five years too late, as if God were in a place so distant that it took almost forever for wishes to travel there, like pale starlight from a distant galaxy, eons old and all worn out even as we look at it. I			Richard Russo
dd05998	Is good fiction more likely to be about the air we breathe or the nose we breathe it through?			Richard Russo
ec10916	his conviction that he was not put here in this world to learn other people's lessons. He'll accept his punishment because he has no choice, but he'll pass when it comes to the education...If we were capable of learning our lessons we'd become obedient. Sensing this, we're dead set against moral instruction.			Richard Russo
e889bf7	It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.			Richard Russo
4bea064	They turned down the narrow alley that led to the Woohvorth's			Richard Russo
3f51d41	But eating with genuine good appetite is no easy thing when you are seated at the opposite end of a long table from a man who makes it a point of moral significance to subsist on half a grapefruit, eaten in under a minute so that the bowl could be pushed emphatically away, another duty done.			Richard Russo
89d9b37	Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.		separation	Richard Russo
363ce7b	Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He			Richard Russo
ca309db	old textile mill, which was in the process of being			Richard Russo
ab23893	Because--and don't let anybody tell you different--novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.			Richard Russo
899ffc8	She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.			Richard Russo
b360b08	You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.			Richard Russo
ba7c942	When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One			Richard Russo
00efa4b	I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor			Richard Russo
f187169	He looks like he sucked the bottle dry about three in the morning and then stayed awake another hour or two to whistle into it.			Richard Russo
0c69a5b	Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.			Richard Russo
bc6df0c	Yes. He loves us all. "No!" Tunic emphatically disagreed. "God does not." Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. "Because a shirker is a coward." No, God is."			Richard Russo
2d4d012	books by her favorite "Golden Age" British mystery writers--Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, John Dickson Carr, and Agatha Christie--evil"			Richard Russo
3204d15	I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around			Richard Russo
2b17560	Because if you were God, it stood to reason your real enemy would be boredom. Sully			Richard Russo
5161b03	The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.			Richard Russo
b53b547	ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the			Richard Russo

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