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The Sportswriter QUOTES

The Sportswriter QUOTES

1 " If you lose all hope, you can always find it again. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

2 " It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a
tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys? "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

3 " I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--men and women alike--could go on to happier, more productive lives. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

4 " People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

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

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

6 " They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis? "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

7 " Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

8 " It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know anybody later on who was the way we were now. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

9 " Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

10 " We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

11 " For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

12 " One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

13 " We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

14 " Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

15 " The saved moment is the true art of love. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

16 " Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

17 " Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

18 " All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with life. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

19 " She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and to have concentrated only on the few things I have concentrated on--her, for one. My children, for another. Sportswriting and being an ordinary citizen. This did not leave me well enough armored for the unexpected, was her opinion. She said this was because I didn't know my parents very well, had gone to a military school, and grown up in the south, which was full of betrayers and secret-keepers and untrustworthy people, which I agree is true, though I never knew any of them. "

― Richard Ford , The Sportswriter

20 " 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 , The Sportswriter