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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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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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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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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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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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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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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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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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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