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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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 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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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 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.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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