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I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
Richard Ford
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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
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