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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
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Mississippi
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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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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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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 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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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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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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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Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
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