Karen Russell Quotes
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
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I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.
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Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?
