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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they dont mean to. – Richard Russo

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I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comics best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what hes doing is easy is an occupational hazard. – Richard Russo

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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels arent necessarily about that. – Richard Russo

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Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo

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