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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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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 had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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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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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I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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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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