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I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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 don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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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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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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