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Russell Banks

"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."

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"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."

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"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"

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"I am seeing life in two dimensions, human and divine."

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"If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world."

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"Happiness is immeasurable joy."

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"PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot."

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"Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go."

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"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
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"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
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"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
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"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
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