"I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales."

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Source : "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

Karen Russell

#Brother Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.”
“I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.”

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“The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the hands moving, for a child can see all this; but he sees also the parts of the clock, and in what connexion the suspended weight stands to the wheel-work, and the pendulum to the moving hands.”
“I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.”
“Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street.”
“As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.”
“I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.”
“The happy problem of our time - longer life.”

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