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And though they may both have felt that something had died between them, something they may not even have been aware or until it was gone and disappeared from their lives forever, they must've felt - both of them - that there was something of themselves, something important, that could not live at all in any other way but by their being together, much as they had been before. (Richard Ford)
Love isn't a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts. View quote
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part. View quote
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole. View quote
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Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do. View quote
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I may be too cynical," Catherine says. If you're worried about it, you probably aren't. View quote
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Don't let what your parents do disappoint you. View quote
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I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions. View quote
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An infinite remoteness underlies us all. View quote
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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. View quote
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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. (Richard Ford)
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain. View quote
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My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. View quote
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My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. View quote
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind. View quote
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Fear and hope are alike underneath. View quote
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Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. View quote
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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me. View quote
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. View quote
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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know. View quote
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I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty. (Richard Ford)
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. View quote
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Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. View quote
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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense. View quote
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She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind. View quote
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