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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.
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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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