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I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. — Richard Yates

Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem? — Richard Yates

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love. — Richard Yates

They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page. — Richard Yates

Oh-h-h-h - Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We're the infantry ... — Richard Yates

If you lived like a proletarian long enough, among proletarians, weren't you almost certain to become a proletarian too? — Richard Yates

Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time. — Blake Bailey

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg
'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates

He was big and sturdy, with a heavy jaw and a voice that made her want to curl up and ride in his pocket like a kitten. — Richard Yates

It reminded her too, time and again, of her own susceptibility to panic and her unfathomable dread of being alone. — Richard Yates

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world. — Richard Yates

Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around. — Richard Yates

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing? — Richard Yates

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering ... — Richard Yates

He had won but he didn't feel like a winner. — Richard Yates

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates

Whoever said you can't love ridiculous things? God knows i love you, and you're the most ridiculous woman I ever met! — Richard Yates

Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce. — Richard Yates

Time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes — Richard Yates

If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone. — Richard Yates

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father. — Richard Yates

His job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. — Richard Yates

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates

I see,' she said. And when would she ever learn to stop saying 'I see' about things she didn't see at all? — Richard Yates

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him. — Richard Yates

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail ... it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. — Richard Yates

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. — Richard Yates

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases. — Richard Yates

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying. — Richard Yates

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love. — Richard Yates

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture. — Richard Yates

Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything expect their own comfortable God damn mediocrity. — Richard Yates

And they fell asleep like children. — Richard Yates

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. — Richard Yates

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. — Richard Yates

Some things you did were worth regretting; others not. — Richard Yates

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence. — Richard Yates

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates

Oh, you'll what? You'll leave me? What's that supposed to be - a threat or a promise? — Richard Yates

Everything is selling. Nothing happens in this world, nothing comes into this world, until somebody makes a sale. — Richard Yates

Wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow", he said.
"Don't, then. Stay home."
"No. I guess I've got to go. — Richard Yates

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. — Richard Yates

How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up? — Richard Yates