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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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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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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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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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