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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
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
Guy
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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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'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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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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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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