America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
Richard FordI know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
Richard FordWhat I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.
Richard Ford