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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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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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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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