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  1. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.
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  2. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    He looks like he sucked the bottle dry about three in the morning and then stayed awake another hour or two to whistle into it.
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  3. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor
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  4. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.
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  5. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    ...his conviction that he was not put here in this world to learn other people's lessons. He'll accept his punishment because he has no choice, but he'll pass when it comes to the education...If we were capable of learning our lessons we'd become obedient. Sensing this, we're dead set against moral instruction.
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  6. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    Is good fiction more likely to be about the air we breathe or the nose we breathe it through?
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  7. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.
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  8. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    We do not want what's good for us.
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  9. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    My afternoon comp class is not persuaded. In fact, they feel ill-treated...I've read three short essays aloud, anonymously, for the purpose of inspiring discussion or, failing discussion, private misgiving. It's my hope that if the majority of these intellectually addled young folk actually hear their words aloud, if they are forced to digest not only their advice to me but the logic that led to this advice, they will, if not change their minds, at least become acquainted with doubt.
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  10. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again."
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  11. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    ...the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own. Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do...Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves.
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  12. Richard Russo _ Straight Man

    You've become a clever man.
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