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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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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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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
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