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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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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 don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
Richard Ford
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
Richard Ford
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
Richard Ford
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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'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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
Richard Ford
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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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?
Richard Ford
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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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford