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The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds. (Richard Russo)
I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood? View quote
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. View quote
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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. View quote
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It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated. View quote
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. View quote
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. View quote
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To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal. View quote
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The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill. View quote
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She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched. View quote
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