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Richard Ford ist ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Romane über den Sportreporter und späteren Immobilienmakler Frank Bascombe: Der Sportreporter, Unabhängigkeitstag, Die Lage des Landes und Frank. Für Unabhängigkeitstag erhielt er als bisher einziger Autor sowohl den Pulitzer-Preis als auch den PEN/Faulkner Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Februar 1944
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“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”

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Richard Ford buch Independence Day

Quelle: Independence Day

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. I mean, do you actually realize how much adult conversation is spent on this fuckin business? Facts treated like they were opinions just for the simple purpose of talking about it longer? Some people might think that's interesting, bub, but I'll tell you. It's romanticizing a goddamn rock by calling it a mountain range to me. People waste a helluva lot of time they could be putting to useful purposes. This is a game. See it and forget about it.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Quelle: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 104

“What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Quelle: The Sportswriter

“Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.”

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Richard Ford buch Canada

Quelle: Canada

“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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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Quelle: The Sportswriter

“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”

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Richard Ford buch The Lay of the Land

Quelle: The Lay of the Land

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

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Richard Ford buch Canada

Quelle: Canada

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

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Richard Ford buch The Lay of the Land

Quelle: The Lay of the Land

“An infinite remoteness underlies us all.”

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Richard Ford buch Let Me Be Frank with You

Let Me Be Frank with You

“"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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Richard Ford

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 17

“It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”

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Richard Ford

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 44

“In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.”

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Richard Ford

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 1

“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

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 171

“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.”

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Richard Ford

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 176

“I may be too cynical," Catherine says.
If you're worried about it, you probably aren't.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter (1986)

“This is how you knew what a fool was—someone who didn't know what mattered to him in the long run”

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Richard Ford buch Rock Springs

Children, p. 97
Rock Springs (1987)

“One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”

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Richard Ford

Quelle: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 276

“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Quelle: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 7

“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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Richard Ford

Quelle: Wildlife (1990), p. 18

“Her complexion seemed slowly to be losing its olive color, and the set of her mouth hardened as though interior shifts were taking place she herself didn't know about but which had already corrected her outlook toward the rest of the world.”

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Richard Ford

Quelle: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 262

“But when you are older, nothing you did when you were young matters at all. I know that now, though I didn't know it then. We were simply young.”

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