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Mary Doria Russell is an American novelist.

✵ 19. August 1950
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Works

The Sparrow
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Children of God
Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Children of God
Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
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Famous Mary Doria Russell Quotes

“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”

Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow

Source: The Sparrow

“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”

Mary Doria Russell Children of God

Source: Children of God

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”

Mary Doria Russell Children of God

Source: Children of God

“When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buyfrom a man who's selling fear.”

Mary Doria Russell

Source: Dreamers of the Day

“Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.”

Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow

Source: The Sparrow

“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.”

Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow

Source: The Sparrow

“… 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.”

Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow

Source: The Sparrow

“One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables.”

Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow

The Sparrow, Ballantine Books, 1996, page 115.

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