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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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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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