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Dave Russell

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Dave Russell is currently reading

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo

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Dave’s Quotes

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: bees, clover, happiness, lightheartedness, prairie, revery

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“For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
― William Shakespeare

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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
― Anton Chekhov

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Dave’s Writing

Poetry (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34PM

Description: For now I'm just going to post this one poem. It's the only I've written that doesn't make me wince when I reread it.

City Beat Stories (Literature & Fiction)

2 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33PM

Description: These are stories I wrote for San Diego City Beat's Fiction 101 contest (the best stories under 101 words.) The first one won an honorable mention despite its stupid title. The second was printed without a mention of any kind. BTW, if you want to know what a pataphor is, consult wikipedia. That's where I learned of them. Also, Pedro Edelstein is the name of my chihuahua/dachshund mix. Everything else is purely fictional.