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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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