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Famous Richard Yates Quotes

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”

Richard Yates A Good School

Source: A Good School

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“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 book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates Quotes about God

“Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?”

Richard Yates

“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”

Richard Yates book Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Source: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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

Richard Yates book Young Hearts Crying

Source: Young Hearts Crying

“There was no readiness for soldiering in this truck, no stern and cocky welcoming of challenges. They sounded - oh, Mother of God - they sounded like children.”

Richard Yates A Good School

Source: Novels, A Good School (1978), p.165 (Ch.7)

Richard Yates Quotes about life

“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 book The Easter Parade

Source: The Easter Parade

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

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

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates Quotes

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”

Richard Yates

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“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 book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

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

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“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

“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

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

Richard Yates book Cold Spring Harbor

Source: Cold Spring Harbor

“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

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