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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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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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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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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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'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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