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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Asshole
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Ignorant
Alive

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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 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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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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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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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 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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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