“ It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it. ”
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“ I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semivalid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semivalid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
- 1.3K
“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
- 2.9K
“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
- 2K
“ When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
- 3K
“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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“ People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ”
- Richard Russo- Copy
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