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Karen Russell Quotes

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams Picture Quote #1

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction Picture Quote #1

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity Picture Quote #1

You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories Picture Quote #1

Once you figure out what’s best for the story, take out the rest Picture Quote #1

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose Picture Quote #1

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A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions Picture Quote #1

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything Picture Quote #1

And I do think that great fiction, even when it’s comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way Picture Quote #1

I really try to write every day. It’s hard, but it’s my favorite thing to do, so it’s usually not too, too hard Picture Quote #1

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips Picture Quote #1

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

You don’t want people to think you’re just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu Picture Quote #1

America’s great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end Picture Quote #1

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It’s not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother’s old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for Picture Quote #1

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it Picture Quote #1

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it’s just me at my most desperate Picture Quote #1

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Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart Picture Quote #1

Somehow I wasn’t adding up right anymore. My parts weren’t summing into myself Picture Quote #1

When you’re a kid, it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them Picture Quote #1

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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams (Karen Russell Quotes) There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction (Karen Russell Quotes) It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity (Karen Russell Quotes) You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories (Karen Russell Quotes) Once you figure out what’s best for the story, take out the rest (Karen Russell Quotes) Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose (Karen Russell Quotes) A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions (Karen Russell Quotes) Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything (Karen Russell Quotes) And I do think that great fiction, even when it’s comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way (Karen Russell Quotes) I really try to write every day. It’s hard, but it’s my favorite thing to do, so it’s usually not too, too hard (Karen Russell Quotes) I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips (Karen Russell Quotes) Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them (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 (Karen Russell Quotes) You don’t want people to think you’re just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu (Karen Russell Quotes) America’s great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end (Karen Russell Quotes) Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It’s not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother’s old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for (Karen Russell Quotes) The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it (Karen Russell Quotes) I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it’s just me at my most desperate (Karen Russell Quotes) Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart (Karen Russell Quotes) Somehow I wasn’t adding up right anymore. My parts weren’t summing into myself (Karen Russell Quotes) When you’re a kid, it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them (Karen Russell Quotes)

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