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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
Imagination
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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.
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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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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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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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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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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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