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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
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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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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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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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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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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 don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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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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