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Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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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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Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
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