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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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Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
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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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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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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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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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