"Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know."

-- Richard Ford

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“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
“Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.”
“Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years. So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I've had family members who are bipolar, so I've seen it again.”

Source : "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.
“Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.”
“When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.”
“I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.”
“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”
“Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.”

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