“Everything is selling. Nothing happens in this world, nothing comes into this world, until somebody makes a sale.” — richard yates Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“I need a job; okay. Is that any reason why the job I get has to louse me up? Look. All I… — Richard Yates Making money 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 Family Copy Share Image
“They could lie drowsing now under the sound of kindly voices in the living room, a sound whose intricately rhythmic rise and… — Richard Yates Cool places 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
“He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing… — Richard Yates Revolutionary-road Copy Share Image
“It’s the great sentimental lie of the suburbs, and I’ve been making you subscribe to it all this time.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. — Richard Yates Important Copy Share Image
“You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
“Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?” — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations” — Richard Yates Goals 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
“He was happy enough to stay in this jumbled, lively place where the drinks were cheap and the band was loud and… — Richard Yates Inner peace Copy Share Image
“It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter: genuine clarity genuine… — Richard Yates Advice-for-writers Copy Share Image
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 Fifty Copy Share Image
“It took Emily a long time to realize that Sarah was dead. Sometimes, waking from a dream of childhood filled with Sarah's… — Richard Yates Long time Copy Share Image
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate… — Richard Yates Illness Copy Share Image
“On nights when Gloria stayed up late enough to see Rachel come dreamily home she was always unsettled by the girl's appearance:… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. — Richard Yates Angry 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
“The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just… — Richard Yates Around the corner 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
