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Richard Ford Quotes

Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible? time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

Richard Ford

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