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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
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