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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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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'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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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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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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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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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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