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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
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Important

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Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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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 went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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