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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
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Stories
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Loneliness

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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
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I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
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