Dave Russell

“Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.”
― Kirk Curnutt, Breathing Out the Ghost

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“No sooner had the town dropped back than all sort of stuff and nonsense, as is usual with us, began scrawling itself along both sides of the road: tussocks, fir trees, low skimpy stands of young pines, charred trunks of old ones, wild heather, and similar gibberish.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“Desire is sad.”
― W. Somerset Maugham