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

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Mississippi
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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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 didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
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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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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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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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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 started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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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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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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