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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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 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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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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 started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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