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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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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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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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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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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 started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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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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