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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.
Richard Ford
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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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.
Richard Ford
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
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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.
Richard Ford
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.
Richard Ford
Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
Richard Ford
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
Richard Ford
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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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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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Richard Ford
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
Richard Ford
Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
Richard Ford
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Richard Ford
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Richard Ford
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.
Richard Ford
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Richard Ford
Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
Richard Ford