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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Single
Thing
Love
Acts
Endless

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Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.
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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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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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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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