“One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.”

—  Richard Ford

Source: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 276

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American novelist and short story writer 1944

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