Richard Ford

What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups. ↗

— Richard Ford

#friendship

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly. ↗

— Richard Ford

#marriage #memories #memory #nostalgia #life

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dreams #life #dreams

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore. ↗

— Richard Ford

#divorce

Some idiotic things are well worth doing. ↗

— Richard Ford

#inspirational

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. ↗

— Richard Ford

#inspirational

Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life

Everything has seemed beckoning and ahead, though I am unsure now if life has not suddenly passed me like a big rumbling semi and left me flattened here by the road. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life #memories #nostalgia #siblings #life