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It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither.
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She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
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love
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Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential of to fuck up your whole life
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First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
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opening-line-of-the-novel
opening-lines
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to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;
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Richard Ford |
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And there is no nicer time on earth than now--everything in the offing, nothing gone wrong, all potential--the very polar opposite of how I felt driving home the other night, when everything was on the skids and nothing within a thousand kilometers worth anticipating. This is really all life is worth, when you come down to it.
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No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.
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Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke.
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Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.
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It's odd how our fears, the ones we didn't know we had, alter our sight line and make us see things that never were.
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Richard Ford |
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For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.
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For now let me say only this: if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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Nothing in the world is as hopeful as knowing a woman you like is somewhere thinking about only you. Conversely, there is no badness anywhere as acute as the badness of no woman out in the world thinking about you. Or worse. That one has quit because of some bone-headedness on your part. It is like looking out an airplane window and finding the earth has disappeared. No loneliness can compete with that.
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I lie back on the bed and listen to the sounds of Easter--the optimist's holiday, the holiday with the suburbs in mind, the day for all those with sunny dispositions and a staunch belief in the middle view, a tiny, tidy holiday to remember sweetly and indistinctly as the very same day through all your life.
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sharing the future with someone would certainly mean that repetitions had to be managed more skillfully.
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when you're young your opponent is the future; but when you're not young, your opponent's the past and everything you've done in it and the problem of getting away from it.
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Richard Ford |
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It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.
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Richard Ford |
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Men are a strange breed.
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Richard Ford |
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In the three boats story, a man is floating alone in an ocean without a life jacket when a boat passes by. "Get in. I'll save you," the boatman says. "Oh, no, it's fine," the floating man answers, "I'm putting my faith in the Lord." In time, two more boats come along, and to each rescuer the man - usually me, in Wade's telling - says, "No, no, I'm putting my faith in the Lord." Eventually, and it isn't very long in coming, the man drowns. Y..
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then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don't think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So,
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Richard Ford |
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Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: solo un monton de formas inadecuadas"." --
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Richard Ford |
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and closed
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Richard Ford |
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This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
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Richard Ford |
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I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.
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Richard Ford |
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We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
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potential
potentialities
truth
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to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...
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people
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Voyez-vous, d'apres mon experience, c'est quand on a l'impression de ne pas progresser qu'on avance sans doute le plus. >>
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Richard Ford |
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No one's permitted in except contractors, owners, and local officialdom (plus President Obama and our big candied yam of a governor).
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Richard Ford |
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Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn't live without.
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Richard Ford |
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as a present to myself but haven't made much progress there--though I need to.
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Richard Ford |
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don't see what this has to do with us." I say back, "Does everything have to be about you? Can you not project yourself outside yourself? Can you not take on another's life for your own benefit?"
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Richard Ford |
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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Richard Ford |
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I may be too cynical," Catherine says.
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Richard Ford |
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It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.
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Richard Ford |
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You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better."
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Richard Ford |