Richard Ford Quotes

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• I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It…
• At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
• Fear and hope are alike underneath.
• What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
• I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
• 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…
• Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your…
• The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
• 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…
• When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts.…
• Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
• Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
• Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops…
• Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
• And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss…
• 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…
• Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
• Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
• America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
• I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

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