Richard Ford Quotes

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

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

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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

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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. And I remember it fondly.

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

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The worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.

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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.

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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. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again - which is a loss. But to shield yourself - as I didn't do - seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.

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"I'm not worried," I said. And I wasn't, because I thought things would be fine. And even though I was wrong, it is still not so bad a way to set your mind toward the unknown just when you are coming into the face of it.

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