"It is no loss to mankind when one……" — Richard Ford
"It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?"
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65 Quotes by Richard Ford
Richard Ford has 65 quotes on this site.
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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…
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Fear and hope are alike underneath.
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What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied.…
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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
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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…
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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far…
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what…
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When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less…
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
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