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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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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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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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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