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  1. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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  2. Richard Ford _ Canada

    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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  3. Richard Ford _ Let Me Be Frank with You

    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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  4. Richard Ford _ A Multitude of Sins

    Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn't live without.
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  5. Richard Ford _ Let Me Be Frank with You

    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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  6. Richard Ford _ Independence Day

    « Voyez-vous, d'après mon expérience, c'est quand on a l'impression de ne pas progresser qu'on avance sans doute le plus. »
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  7. Richard Ford _ Canada

    ...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...
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  8. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    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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  9. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    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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  10. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
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  11. Richard Ford _ Let Me Be Frank With You

    Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas"."
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  12. Richard Ford _ Let Me Be Frank with You

    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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