Quote by Richard Russo
Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, t

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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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. – Richard Russo

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Hope
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About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldnt find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that werent good were good. – Richard Russo

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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

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It has always amazed me how tax cuts dont work until they take effect. Mr. Obamas experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. – Arthur Laffer

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Once youre in a particular country, and youre surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. – Evelyn Glennie

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. – Muhammad Iqbal

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. – Orison Swett Marden

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There is a woman at the begining of all great things. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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Most marriages can survive “better or worse.” The tester is all the years of “exactly the same.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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