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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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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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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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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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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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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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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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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'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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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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