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
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The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.... #MaryDoriaRussell #citations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-doria-russell-quotes/#2600ed24

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.... #MaryDoriaRussell #citations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-doria-russell-quotes/#ffb7bf57

Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many... #MaryDoriaRussell #citations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-doria-russell-quotes/#b6d132af

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.... #MaryDoriaRussell #citation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-doria-russell-quotes/#337b9e37

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish ... #MaryDoriaRussell #quotations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-doria-russell-quotes/#dddc954a