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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
Stories
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Loneliness
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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