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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
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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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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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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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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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