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The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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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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