Quotes about Russell Banks

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community...

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So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing...

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all...

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Nobody does anything for one reason.

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

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Motivations are too tangled and complex.

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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than...

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John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political...

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It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you...

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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading...

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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows...

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