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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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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'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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 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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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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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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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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 started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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'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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