Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.
I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. - Richard Ford
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 art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. - Richard Ford
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Fear and hope are alike underneath. - Richard Ford
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. - Richard Ford
Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again. - Richard Ford
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things. - Richard Ford
When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts. - Richard Ford
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
Some idiotic things are well worth doing. - Richard Ford
Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know. - Richard Ford
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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