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Ричард Форд — американский писатель, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии.

✵ 16. Февраль 1944
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Форд, Ричард цитаты

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„Плюс падение цен на недвижимость гуляет ныне меж деревьями, как туман без запаха и цвета,
оседающий в тихом воздухе, и все мы им дышим, все ощущаем его, хотя последние наши достижения, коим полагалось бы цену повышать, — новые патрульные машины, новые пешеходные переходы, опрятно подстриженные деревья, упрятанные под землю электрокабели, подновлённая оркестровая раковина,планы парада 4 июля — делают всё возможное, чтобы угомонить наши тревоги, убедить, что это и не тревоги вовсе или, по крайней мере, не наши, а общие, то есть ничьи, а наша задача — не сбиваться с верного пути, держать оборону и помнить о цикличности всего сущего,ведь это и есть главные достоинства нашей страны, и думать как-то иначе значит отступаться от оптимизма, быть параноиком и нуждаться в дорогом «лечении» где-нибудь за пределами штата.“

Форд, Ричард

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Источник: День независимости

Форд, Ричард: Цитаты на английском языке

“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”

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Richard Ford книга Independence Day

Источник: Independence Day

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. I mean, do you actually realize how much adult conversation is spent on this fuckin business? Facts treated like they were opinions just for the simple purpose of talking about it longer? Some people might think that's interesting, bub, but I'll tell you. It's romanticizing a goddamn rock by calling it a mountain range to me. People waste a helluva lot of time they could be putting to useful purposes. This is a game. See it and forget about it.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Источник: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 104

“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Источник: The Sportswriter

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

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Источник: The Sportswriter

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

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Richard Ford книга Canada

Источник: Canada

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

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Источник: The Sportswriter

“You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.”

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Richard Ford книга Canada

Источник: Canada

“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.”

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Richard Ford книга The Lay of the Land

Источник: The Lay of the Land

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

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Richard Ford книга Canada

Источник: 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.”

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Richard Ford книга The Lay of the Land

Источник: The Lay of the Land

“I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter

“An infinite remoteness underlies us all.”

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Richard Ford книга Let Me Be Frank with You

Let Me Be Frank with You

“"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.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 17

“It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 44

“In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 1

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

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 171

“And though they may both have felt that something had died between them, something they may not even have been aware or until it was gone and disappeared from their lives forever, they must've felt - both of them - that there was something of themselves, something important, that could not live at all in any other way but by their being together, much as they had been before.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 176

“I may be too cynical," Catherine says.
If you're worried about it, you probably aren't.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter (1986)

“This is how you knew what a fool was—someone who didn't know what mattered to him in the long run”

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Richard Ford книга Rock Springs

Children, p. 97
Rock Springs (1987)

“One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 276

“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.”

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Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Источник: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 7

“When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again - which is a loss. But to shield yourself - as I didn't do - seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: Wildlife (1990), p. 18

“Her complexion seemed slowly to be losing its olive color, and the set of her mouth hardened as though interior shifts were taking place she herself didn't know about but which had already corrected her outlook toward the rest of the world.”

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Richard Ford

Источник: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 262

“But when you are older, nothing you did when you were young matters at all. I know that now, though I didn't know it then. We were simply young.”

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Richard Ford