Richard Ford: Quotes about time

Richard Ford is American novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“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.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 104

People , Stupidity , Mountain , Game

“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.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter

Life , Time

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

Richard Ford book Canada

Source: Canada

Dreams , Time

“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.”

Richard Ford

Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 1

Love , Time