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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
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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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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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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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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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 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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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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 very long.
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