9 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Puz

Richard Puz is a bestselling author of three novels. His novel The Red House won the prestigious Gold Dagger Award in the UK, and he was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. His third novel, Dead Kings, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. He has also written three non-fiction books, including Stalin's Cursed Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Men Who Lost the Great Patriotic War, based on his work as a journalist and war correspondent in Russia for four years, and Wildwood Road: The Story of an Extraordinary Family Read more

Richard's latest book is an investigation into the mysterious death of his grandmother at Auschwitz.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves...
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone Richard Puz
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If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.” Edward Johnston Richard Puz
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Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God? Richard Puz
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We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July. Richard Puz
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Some folks say that you can’t get rid of a problem until you shuck it. So, brother, let’s start shucking. Richard Puz
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As I’ve been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won’t tell you nothing about what’s inside. That’s where a fellow’s mettle is, and that’s what counts. Richard Puz
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You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same. Richard Puz
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Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads. Richard Puz