“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.” PeopleWayNeedsHelpingAsksReputationStayingGood PeopleStay StrongHiringHbo Author:Richard Russo
“As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.” ThinkingWorldI CanTwoSometimesWholeHelpingThreeUnderstandingSleepExistenceWonderfulEvidenceSimplicityThis LifeAwakeSandSecondsGrainFlashWonderful ThingsIncompleteGrains Of Sand Author:Richard Russo
“Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?” KnowsKindDifferentHelpingFeelingsHavensPossibilityFortunateBitternessDifferent KindsSweetnessHintsCheated Author:Richard Russo
“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?” KnowsKindDifferentWholeHelpingFeelingsTogetherUsedFatherOur LivesHavensPossibilityRegretFortunateHelp MeTelling The TruthBitternessDifferent KindsSweetnessHintsCheatedThose We LoveWhole TruthLife TogetherGod Help MeNothing But The Truth Author:Richard Russo
“My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.” ThinkingMindHelpingAgeCausesEmotionTerribleSkillsSightSurfaceAdulthoodTurbulence Author:Richard Russo
