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

Richard Ford

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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
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Love
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Endless

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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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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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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 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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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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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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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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
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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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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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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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