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I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 16
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
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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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Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.
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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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For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
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The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.
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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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