Karen Russell Quotes
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
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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 could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
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If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
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I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
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As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.
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I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.
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In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
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When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.
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I am Providence.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
