Richard Ford Quotes

• If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

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• If there’s another thing that sports writing teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they’re over, and that has to be enough.

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• Writing is the only thing I’ve ever done with persistence, except for being married.

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• There’s a lot to be said for doing what you’re not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you’re supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

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• Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

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• Fear and hope are alike underneath.

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• It’s interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can’t, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

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Richard Ford (7)

Birth:	16th February, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels,
Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.

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