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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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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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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