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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
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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