Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. — Richard Yates Benefits Copy Share Image
There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love. — Richard Yates Dying Copy Share Image
“Well, your mother has her own way of dealing with information.” — Richard Yates Dealing Copy Share Image
“I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.” — Richard Yates Amor Copy Share Image
Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. — Richard Yates People Copy Share Image
“How can you talk that way? Frank, has it gotten so bad that you've lost all your belief in yourself?” — Richard Yates Belief in yourself Copy Share Image
“Oh-h-h-h— Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We’re the infantry…” — Richard Yates Fuck Copy Share Image
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. — Richard Yates Hard work Copy Share Image
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates Death Copy Share Image
Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates Animal Copy Share Image
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates Avoiding Copy Share Image
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing? — Richard Yates Whole life Copy Share Image
“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.” — Richard Yates Poetry Copy Share Image
“As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained… — Richard Yates Paul sartre Copy Share Image
“He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had… — Richard Yates Goals Copy Share Image
“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect… — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could… — Richard Yates Time Copy Share Image
“She bought a chocolate bar and it tasted surprisingly good - as if, without her knowing it, sitting here and eating this… — Richard Yates Eating chocolate Copy Share Image
“It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist,… — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Cry Copy Share Image
“The slick, chin-high tops of cars made an undulating surface that stretched away into the darkness in all directions; beneath it stood… — Richard Yates Shadowy Copy Share Image
“my first wife passed away in the spring of—” and for a moment he is touched with terror. The spring of what?… — Richard Yates Marriage Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Grief Copy Share Image
She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank… — Richard Yates Aunt Copy Share Image
“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and… — Richard Yates Debutante Copy Share Image
“Don't worry, I can't be bothered! You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder… — Richard Yates Hate Copy Share Image
“Aveva l'aria di un posto dove la gente viveva davvero - un posto in cui il difficile, intricato processo dell'esistenza poteva risolversi… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him… — Richard Yates Ludicrous Copy Share Image
“She cried because she'd had such high, high hopes about the Wheelers tonight and now she was terribly, terribly, terribly disappointed. She… — Richard Yates High hopes Copy Share Image
“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and… — Richard Yates East Copy Share Image
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the… — Richard Yates Affair Copy Share Image
“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their… — Richard Yates Clouds Copy Share Image
“She was fifty-three years old and lonely and oppressed; why couldn't he let her have her illusions? That was what her wounded,… — Richard Yates God knows Copy Share Image
“You still felt that life was passing you by? Sort of. I still had this idea that there was a whole world… — Richard Yates First time Copy Share Image
“Rachel came carefully downstairs one morning, in a dressing gown that wasn't quite clean, and stood at the brink of the living… — Richard Yates Friday morning Copy Share Image
“So it hadn’t been wrong or dishonest of her to say no this morning, when he asked if she hated him, any… — Richard Yates Face to face Copy Share Image
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates Certainly Copy Share Image
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. — Richard Yates Ability Copy Share Image
