Richard Russo Quotes

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Richard Russo

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Cuando busco mi existencia, no la busco en mí.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Life
  • Path
  • Walking

• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Hip Hop
  • Nine Inch Nails

• In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Small

• The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Character
  • Think
  • Choice

• What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hope
  • Suffering
  • Heroic

• I'm most comfortable on stage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stage
  • Comfortable

• Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

  

  Miep Gies
  • Opinion
  • Humans
  • Permanent

• When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Fire
  • Humans
  • Mistakes

• I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

  

  Richard Russo
  • Genuine
  • Remorse
  • Published