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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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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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 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'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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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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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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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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