Quotes by Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Art

Cleveland

Council

Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl’s pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we’d been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

Girl

Names

Two

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Color

Historical

Two

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

Dog

Small Numbers

Years

Feelings are facts. Look straight at ’em and deal with ’em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it’s what you do about what you feel that matters.

Class

Long

White

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won’t they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I’ll settle for a world with good manners.

Dream

Injustice

World

God’s got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you’re just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Break

Heart

Pieces

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

House

Rain

Wind

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Soul

Talking

Your Soul

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

Past

Regret

Song

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Acting

Advice

Answers

Art

Atheist

Behinds

Believe

Book

Break

Celibacy

Character

Children

Class

Cleveland

Clever

Color

Council

Credit

Dachshunds

Danger

Dark

Decision

Dental

Differences

Dog

Dream

Dreamer

Energy

Eye

Fall

Firsts

Foul Language

Found

Generosity

Girl

Good Decision

Grace

Grief

Heart

Heaven

Historical

Honey

House

Hurt

Ifs

Injustice

Kindness

Long

Love

Love Is

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Quotes by Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Feelings are facts. Look straight at ’em and deal with ’em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it’s what you do about what you feel that matters.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won’t they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I’ll settle for a world with good manners.

God’s got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you’re just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

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