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Richard Russo Quote: “What did it mean that he had so little access to something as straightforward as what he really wanted?”

251. “What did it mean that he had so little access to something as straightforward as what he really wanted?”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Hattie was an institution in Bath, and besides, everybody romanticized old people, seeing in them their own lost parents and grandparents, most of whom had bequeathed to their children the usual legacy of guilt, along with the gift of selective recollection. Most fathers and mothers did their children the great favor of dying before they began fouling themselves, before their children learned to equate them with urine-soaked undergarments and other grim realities of age and infirmity.”

252. “Hattie was an institution in Bath, and besides, everybody romanticized old people, seeing in them their own lost parents and grandparents, most of whom had bequeathed to their children the usual legacy of guilt, along with the gift of selective recollection. Most fathers and mothers did their children the great favor of dying before they began fouling themselves, before their children learned to equate them with urine-soaked undergarments and other grim realities of age and infirmity.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Do we ever know as deeply as we know in childhood? Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and our world?”

253. “Do we ever know as deeply as we know in childhood? Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and our world?”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who’d been raised to accept life’s mysteries – the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman’s reasoning, for another.”

254. “Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who’d been raised to accept life’s mysteries – the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman’s reasoning, for another.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Miss Beryl was not unaware of Mr. Wirfly’s shortcomings, but she steadfastly maintained that he was not so much incompetent as unambitious, a character trait almost impossible to find in a lawyer.”

255. “Miss Beryl was not unaware of Mr. Wirfly’s shortcomings, but she steadfastly maintained that he was not so much incompetent as unambitious, a character trait almost impossible to find in a lawyer.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “He’d imagined the world would be a better place when it was rid of Big Jim Sullivan, but it had remained pretty much the same place, with just one less person to blame things on.”

256. “He’d imagined the world would be a better place when it was rid of Big Jim Sullivan, but it had remained pretty much the same place, with just one less person to blame things on.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here.”

257. “The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Indeed, a good hint that you’ve entered the realm of Art is that you immediately feel like giving up.”

258. “Indeed, a good hint that you’ve entered the realm of Art is that you immediately feel like giving up.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “There were solutions. Some you discovered, some you made, some you willed, some you forced.”

259. “There were solutions. Some you discovered, some you made, some you willed, some you forced.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “We stand before a hundred doors, choose to enter one, where we’re faced with a hundred more and then choose again. We choose not just what we’ll do, but who we’ll be. Perhaps the sound of all those doors swinging shut behind us each time we select this one.”

260. “We stand before a hundred doors, choose to enter one, where we’re faced with a hundred more and then choose again. We choose not just what we’ll do, but who we’ll be. Perhaps the sound of all those doors swinging shut behind us each time we select this one.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “At three in the morning Main Street was so quiet that Dallas could hear the street light change from red to green a block away. There was nothing sadder and lonelier in the world, he decided, especially when you were all alone when it happened.”

261. “At three in the morning Main Street was so quiet that Dallas could hear the street light change from red to green a block away. There was nothing sadder and lonelier in the world, he decided, especially when you were all alone when it happened.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Sully always maintained that if you had ten guys working on a rock pile, Rub would be the last you’d fire for laziness. Only when you’d fired all the others would you realize that Rub had not yet addressed his first rock.”

262. “Sully always maintained that if you had ten guys working on a rock pile, Rub would be the last you’d fire for laziness. Only when you’d fired all the others would you realize that Rub had not yet addressed his first rock.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

263. “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

264. “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye.”

265. “We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability, drama’s enemy.”

266. “To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability, drama’s enemy.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “But for some reason, these periods of melancholy were important to him, and he rode them out the way some people did migraines.”

267. “But for some reason, these periods of melancholy were important to him, and he rode them out the way some people did migraines.”

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