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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
Writer
Jackson
Mississippi
Mainly
Married
Boys
Happy
Girl
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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 thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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 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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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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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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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