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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.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Mississippi
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I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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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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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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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 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 people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
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