“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up.” — Richard Yates Crying Copy Share Image
“in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations” — Richard Yates Avoiding Copy Share Image
“I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.” — Richard Yates Amor Copy Share Image
“Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?” — Richard Yates Lonely people 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
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
“Oh, you’ll what? You’ll leave me? What’s that supposed to be—a threat or a promise?” — Richard Yates Promise Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really… — Richard Yates 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
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
“Everything is selling. Nothing happens in this world, nothing comes into this world, until somebody makes a sale.” — richard yates Sale Copy Share Image
“Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around.” — Richard Yates Cute Copy Share Image
“He watched her with murderous distaste as she fumbled with her spoon. They had ordered ice cream, and some of it clung… — Richard Yates Ice cream Copy Share Image
“She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a… — Richard Yates Time Copy Share Image
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable… — Richard Yates Believe Copy Share Image
“That’s how we both got committed to this enormous delusion—because that’s what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion—this idea that people have… — Richard Yates Delusion Copy Share Image
“He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing… — Richard Yates Fist 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
“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
“Will you call me?" she asked helplessly. "Will you call me again, Evan?" "Well of course I will," he said, looking back… — Richard Yates Love Copy Share Image
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the… — Richard Yates Alignment 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 Bothered 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 Amor Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Ability to love Copy Share Image
“There was always a dim chance that the job could lead to employment on a real magazine, which might be fun; besides,… — Richard Yates Arts education 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
“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
“Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to… — Richard Yates Hopelessness Copy Share Image
“The only trouble at first was that one small, cold-sober part of her mind floated free of the rest of her; it… — Richard Yates Gaze 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 Gaze 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
“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as… — Richard Yates First time 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 Dishonest Copy Share Image
Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. — Richard Yates People Copy Share Image
