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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
Life
Passed
Empty
Along
Happiness
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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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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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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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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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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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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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