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Richard Russo Quotes

born 1949 United States

Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949, in Johnstown, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. His novel Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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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.

Straight Man (1997)

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Straight Man (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Russo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.