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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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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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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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
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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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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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 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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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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