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Richard Ford

“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.”

Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
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The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, #3) The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
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