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To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
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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 have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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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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Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
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Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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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 wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.
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With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
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I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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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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