Richard Ford Quotes

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• Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

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  Writing, Heart, Way

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Mar 02, 2013

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• I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

  Richard Ford

  Dream, Wake Up, Way

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 08, 2016

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• When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

  Richard Ford

  People, Listening, Realizing

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• Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

  Richard Ford

  Idiotic, Wells

  Richard Ford (2012). “Independence Day”, p.338, A&C Black

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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.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Loss, Past

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• Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

  Richard Ford

  Love Is, Endless, Series

  "Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford review - Bascombe returns" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2015.

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• With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

  Richard Ford

  Imagination

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• If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

  Richard Ford

  Ifs, Loses

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Sportswriter”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

  Richard Ford

  Giving Up, Mean, Giving

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• If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

  Richard Ford

  Loneliness, Disease, Stories

  "Perspectives on Richard Ford". Book by Huey Guagliardo, p. 139, 2010.

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• Fear and hope are alike underneath.

  Richard Ford

  Hope, Fear

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• We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

  Richard Ford

  Tragedy, World, Psychopath

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

  Richard Ford

  Empty

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.358, A&C Black

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• The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the dead or that we're fascinated by things that are settled. It is just one place where we can go to understand ourselves in the present.

  Richard Ford

  Mean, Past

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Stories, Theory

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• The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

  Richard Ford

  Pace, Pace Of Life, Dangerous

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• Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

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  Writing, Hands, Force

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• Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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  Reading, Writing

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• Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

  Richard Ford

  Secret, Who We Are, Remember

  FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Oct 23, 2016

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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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  Maturity, Peculiar, Admitting

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.77, A&C Black

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• It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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• Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

  Richard Ford

  People, President, Want

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.98, A&C Black

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• I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

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  Thinking

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• 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

  Book, Views, Literature

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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.

  Richard Ford

  Stars, Real, Light

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Lay of the Land”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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