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I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

R. A. Lafferty

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R. A. Lafferty
Age: 87 †
Born: 1914
Born: November 7
Died: 2002
Died: March 18
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Neola
Iowa
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
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