Quote by Richard Russo
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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. – Richard Russo

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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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relationship
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My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo

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Imagination
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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. – Richard Russo

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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and theyre still beautiful. – Alice Walker

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. – Tommy Smothers

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. – Plato

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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. – Barbara Boxer

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