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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 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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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
Richard Ford
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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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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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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