Famous Quotes
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
More quotes about Sympathy
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"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
William Wordsworth on Sympathy -
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy -
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
Saint Augustine on Sympathy -
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Khalil Gibran on Sympathy -
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
William Shakespeare on Sympathy
More quotes by Richard Russo
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"My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired."
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"Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted."
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"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."
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"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."
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"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."