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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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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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If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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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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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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