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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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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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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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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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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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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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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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