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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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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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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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I'm kind of a distractible guy.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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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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