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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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Mississippi
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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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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 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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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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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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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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