It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible. - Richard Ford

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It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.

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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer, best-known for his novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.

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