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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Jackson
Mississippi
Always
Lose
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Hope
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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