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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Loneliness

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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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 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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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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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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If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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 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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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