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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
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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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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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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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