Let Me Be Frank With You Quotes

“You survived. Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right?” I don’t, of course, believe this. Most things that don’t kill us right off, kill us later.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“there’s no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“I don’t look in mirrors anymore. It’s cheaper than surgery.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“There is no urge to touch, to kiss, to embrace. But I do it just the same. It is our last charm. Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“an infinite remoteness underlies us all.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as a present to myself but haven’t made much progress there—though I need to.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don’t think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So,”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas".”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You

“No hay necesidad de tocar, besar, abrazar. Pero lo hago de todos modos. Es nuestro último fetiche. El amor no es otra cosa al fin y al cabo, que una interminable serie de actos individuales".”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You

“these were days when people still made things and used machines, instead of the opposite).”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“No one’s permitted in except contractors, owners, and local officialdom (plus President Obama and our big candied yam of a governor).”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Men are a strange breed.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“It’s not an unusual American story. Just as there’s no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“inserts”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“suspect that I’m either irrelevant, or that I’m suffering an even worse grief than anyone knows. Or third, that I’m a malcontent who has too much time on his hands and needs to find better ways to be useful. Determining which of those is true isn’t so easy in any life.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“(sixty-eight)—I’ve been trying to jettison as many friends as I can, and am frankly surprised more people don’t do it as a simple and practical means of achieving well-earned, late-in-the-game clarity. Lived life, especially once you hit adulthood, is always a matter of superfluity leading on to less-ness. Only (in my view) it’s a less-ness that’s as good as anything that happened before—plus it’s a lot easier. None”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Mayhem. That’s what you’d be thinking hard about. And no one would blame you. Statistics, however, show that great cravings of almost any nature, including a wish to assassinate, can be overcome just by brief interludes of postponement—the very thing no one ever believes will work, but does. That IS news.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“(A great deal of what I read and see on TV anymore, I have to say, seems dedicated to getting me off the human stage as painlessly and expeditiously as possible—making the unknown not be such a bother. Even though the fact that things end is often the most interesting thing about them—inasmuch as most things seem not to end nearly fast enough.)”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“adults, nothing crucial’s been exchanged. Arnie just needed someone to show his mangled house to. And there’s no reason that someone shouldn’t be me. It’s a not-unheard-of human impulse. Arnie walks right past me in the direction of my car. “You’re well out of it, Frank,” he says. Close up, I can see better the elements of his new feminized visage. Possibly he forgets how he looks, then remembers and feels skittish and starts looking for an exit. He realizes everyone’s seeing the new Arnie, the same way he does in the mirror every morning, and that it’s weird as hell. The smoothed-out, previously raveled Gumper forehead, the stupid tree-line hair implantation, the re-paved cheeks and un-ruckled neck. I don’t look in mirrors anymore. It’s cheaper than surgery.”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Why am I more worried about that than whether there’s”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“NOTHING BESIDE REMAINS”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“Then somebody said—Carter Knott—that Eddie was writing a novel (the last outpost for a certain species of doomed optimist).”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You

“What is it about falling? "He died of a fall." "The poor thing never recovered after his fall." "He broke his hip in a fall and was never the same." "Death came relatively quickly after a fall in the back yard." How fucking far do these people fall? Off of buildings? Over spamming cataracts? Down manholes? Is it farther to the ground than it used to be?”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You

“Love isn’t a thing, but an endless series of single acts”
― Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank With You

“Lástima que no estemos expuestos a más momentos inesperados.”
― Richard Ford, Francamente, Frank