Quote #180384
I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I’ll get it right one day.
Richard Pryor
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line uses Pryor’s trademark confessional humor to frame a painful personal pattern—serial marriage and divorce—as both aspiration and self-mockery. On the surface it’s a comic rationalization (“no one can ever be married too many times”), but the punchline turns into an admission of uncertainty and longing: the desire for stability, domestic belonging, and emotional “rightness” that has repeatedly eluded him. The quote’s power comes from its double register: it invites laughter at the absurd logic while also revealing vulnerability about intimacy, commitment, and the hope that persistence might redeem past failures.




