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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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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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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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