Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. - Richard Russo
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
- Richard Russo
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? - Richard Russo
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? - Richard Russo
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? - Richard Russo
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is. - Richard Russo
I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We ne… - Richard Russo
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We ne…
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most di… - Richard Russo
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most di…
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. - Richard Russo
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else. - Richard Russo
When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.
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