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  1. 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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  2. Richard Ford _ Canada

    ...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...
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  3. Richard Ford _ Canada

    First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
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  4. Richard Ford _ Canada

    It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither.
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  5. Richard Ford _ Canada

    He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
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  6. Richard Ford _ Canada

    It's hard to go through life without killing someone.
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  7. Richard Ford _ Canada

    ...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.
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  8. Richard Ford _ Canada

    The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives became-like a long proof in mathematics in which the first calculation is wrong, following which all other calculations move you further away from how things were when they made sense.
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  9. Richard Ford _ Canada

    My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing."
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  10. Richard Ford _ Canada

    Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what youwant to do-if you can.
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  11. Richard Ford _ Canada

    How amazingly far normalcy extends; how you can keep it in sight as if you were on a raft sliding out to sea, the stitch of land growing smaller and smaller. Or in a balloon swept up on a column of prairie air, the ground widening and flattening, growing less and less distinct below you. You notice it, or you don't notice it. But you're already too far away and all is lost.
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  12. Richard Ford _ Canada

    I had more positive views. Which made me feel that although I hadn't been taught to assimilate, a person perhaps assimilated without knowing it. I was doing it now. You did it alone, and not with other or for them. And assimilating possibly wasn't so hard and risky and didn't need to be permanent. This state of mind conferred another freedom on me and was like starting life over, or as I've already said, becoming someone else -- but someone who was not stalled but moving, which was the nature of things in the world. I could like it or hate it, but the world would change around me no matter how I felt.
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