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  1. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.
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  2. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around
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  3. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One
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  4. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    But eating with genuine good appetite is no easy thing when you are seated at the opposite end of a long table from a man who makes it a point of moral significance to subsist on half a grapefruit, eaten in under a minute so that the bowl could be pushed emphatically away, another duty done."
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  5. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    Here was a wish from another lifetime, granted twenty-five years too late, as if God were in a place so distant that it took almost forever for wishes to travel there, like pale starlight from a distant galaxy, eons old and all worn out even as we look at it. I
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  6. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    Protection was my strong suit. I needed something to be protected from. I
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  7. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    Lest it seem that I was neglected, I should point out that once I became known to the Mohawk Grill crowd, it was like having about two dozen more or less negligent fathers whose slender attentions and vague goodwill nevertheless added up.
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  8. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    It always amazed me how little he understood what I was feeling. It meant, among other things, that my understanding of him probably wasn't much better.
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  9. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    That she should so puzzled him that he even questioned his behavior, entertaining, albeit briefly, the idea that he might in some fashion be responsible for the apparition of his once loving wife, who had faithfully awaited his return from overseas, now calmly and purposefully blasting away, without visible remorse, in the general direction of his life and property. They"
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  10. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    And so began my final stage of my boyhood in Mohawk. Later, as an adult, I would return from time to time. As a visitor, though, never again as a true resident. But then I wouldn't be a true resident of any other place either, joining instead the great multitude of wandering Americans, so many of whom have a Mohawk in their past, the memory of which propels us we know not precisely where, so long as it's away. Return we do, but only to gain momentum for our next outward arc, each further than the last, until there is no elasticity left, nothing to draw us home.
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  11. Richard Russo _ The Risk Pool

    My mother had more than once remarked that my father was one of the war's casualties, that the Sam Hall who came back wasn't the one who left, the one she'd fallen in love with. I didn't doubt that she believed this certain truth, or even that it was true, after a fashion. But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth--that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don't know people as well as we think we do, that the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.
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