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 want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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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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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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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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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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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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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 think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
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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.
