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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Ignorant
Alive
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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