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> [Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/construed-as-turf-home-just-seems-a-provisional-claim-a-designation/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

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## More by Richard Ford

> [Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/something-will-be-there-when-the-flood-recedes-we-know-that-it-will/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/if-you-lose-all-hope-you-can-always-find-it-again/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-started-reading-literature-at-17-or-18-and-i-felt-this-extra-beat/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-don-t-hate-children-my-wife-and-i-just-didn-t-think-we-would-be/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/writing-never-came-naturally-and-i-still-have-to-force-my-hand-to-do/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/conversations-with-adults-other-than-a-person-s-parents-had-more-of/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/some-people-want-to-be-bank-presidents-other-people-want-to-rob-banks/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/in-order-to-write-novels-for-a-living-it-s-not-pathological-but-i-do/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/there-are-more-people-in-america-that-love-guns-and-want-guns-for/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/that-said-being-dyslexic-i-wasn-t-a-great-reader-when-i-was-kid/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/i-m-an-equal-opportunity-reader-although-i-don-t-much-read-plays-and/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/the-pace-of-life-feels-morally-dangerous-to-me/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [“to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/to-sit-in-the-empty-stands-of-a-florida-ball-park-and-hear-the-sounds/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [“And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/and-what-there-is-to-learn-from-almost-any-human-experience-is-that/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

> [“It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/it-was-on-such-a-night-as-this-that-the-unhappy-things-came-about/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

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