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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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Commotion
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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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'm kind of a distractible guy.
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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
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