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“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”

Richard Ford book Independence Day

Source: Independence Day

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

Richard Ford book Canada

Source: 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.”

Richard Ford book The Lay of the Land

Source: The Lay of the Land

“"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.”

Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 17

“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”

Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171