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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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