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You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! ↗

— Mark Russell

#got #republicans #you

I start with the joke line and write backward. ↗

— Nipsey Russell

#i #joke #line #start #write

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? ↗

— Rosalind Russell

#deprivation #see #starvation #where #you

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits. ↗

— Tim Russert

#better #cost #country #cuts #deficits

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#control #debt #got #propose #proposed

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #heartbreaking #hilarious #i #i think

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#hunch #nothing #reality

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. ↗

— Richard Russo

#disingenuous #frequently #hilarious #humor #i