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  1. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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  2. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
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  3. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.
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  4. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
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  5. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    I lie back on the bed and listen to the sounds of Easter-the optimist's holiday, the holiday with the suburbs in mind, the day for all those with sunny dispositions and a staunch belief in the middle view, a tiny, tidy holiday to remember sweetly and indistinctly as the very same day through all your life.
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  6. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
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  7. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    Nothing in the world is as hopeful as knowing a woman you like is somewhere thinking about only you. Conversely, there is no badness anywhere as acute as the badness of no woman out in the world thinking about you. Or worse. That one has quit because of some bone-headedness on your part. It is like looking out an airplane window and finding the earth has disappeared. No loneliness can compete with that.
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  8. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    For now let me say only this: if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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  9. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.
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  10. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    And there is no nicer time on earth than now-everything in the offing, nothing gone wrong, all potential-the very polar opposite of how I felt driving home the other night, when everything was on the skids and nothing within a thousand kilometers worth anticipating. This is really all life is worth, when you come down to it.
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  11. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;
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  12. Richard Ford _ The Sportswriter

    I was born into an ordinary, modern existence in 1945, an only child to decent parents of no irregular point of view, no particular sense of their place in history's continuum, just two people afloat on the world and expectant like most others in time, without a daunting conviction about their own consequence.
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