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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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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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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
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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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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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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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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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