"For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better."

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Richard Ford

#Divorce Quotes #Feel Better Quotes #Night Quotes

“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.”
“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.”
“I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.”
“Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.”
“The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little.”
“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”
“I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.”
“Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.”

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