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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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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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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
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