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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Passed
Empty
Along
Happiness
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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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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 grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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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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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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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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