"The ways in which things are superficially similar……" — Richard Ford
"The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me."
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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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More Distinct Quotes
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct…
— Jane Austen
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite…
— Honore de Balzac
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my…
— Johannes Brahms
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct…
— George Washington Carver
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine.…
— Unknown Author
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If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.…
— Sun Tzu
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It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty…
— Alexander Hamilton
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