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

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
Novelist
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Mississippi
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
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