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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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