Richard Russo Quotes

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

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...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

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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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Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

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