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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
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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 you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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