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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.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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 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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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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 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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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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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