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Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
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At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
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Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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