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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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