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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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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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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.
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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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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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