“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
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Revolutionary Road is American author Richard Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life in the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted... a remarkable and deeply troubling book." In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.When DeWitt Henry and Geoffrey Clark interviewed Yates for the Winter 1972 issue of literary journal Ploughshares, Yates detailed the title's subtext:
“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”
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“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
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“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
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“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”
Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road
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“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”
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“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
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“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”
Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road
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