Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. — Richard Yates People Copy Share Image
“Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?” — Richard Yates Lonely people Copy Share Image
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability… — Richard Yates Ability to love 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“I don't think about growing old," she said. "I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice.… — Richard Yates Growing old Copy Share Image
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then… — Richard Yates 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
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and… — Richard Yates Delusion 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The hell with reality! Let's have a whole bunch of cute little winding roads and cute little houses painted white and pink… — Richard Yates Reality 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 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
“He had proved nothing, he had made no viable gesture of atonement, and he knew now that he probably never would. If… — Richard Yates 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 Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Community 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
