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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
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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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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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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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