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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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 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 loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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