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Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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