Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
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Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.
Richard Ford
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
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It was trainer error when he was pulled up last time at Perth. I ran him too quickly, but it had looked an easy race.
Richard Ford
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
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You turn away from being a professional, from the expectations of your parents, and that can be daunting. Because Eudora made it as a writer and lived in Jackson, it made that decision a whole lot more tenable.
Richard Ford
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