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I'm kind of a distractible guy.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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