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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
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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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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'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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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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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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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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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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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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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