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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: relationships, worth, only, reading

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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: ending, car, history, nature
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: daughter, vision, me, eyes
It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: compassion, great, me, family
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: revolution, royal, daughter, family
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
— Kathryn Harrison
Tags: review, how, book, sometimes
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