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
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
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
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates 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 Copy Share Image
“Don't you see what I'm saying? It's got nothing to do with definite, measurable talents - it's your very essence that's being… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn… — Richard Yates Dusk Copy Share Image
“There was probably nothing to be done about a woman like this. Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much… — Richard Yates 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 Copy Share Image
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less… — Richard Yates 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 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
“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
“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
“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
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held… — Richard Yates Cheerful 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
“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
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs… — Richard Yates Absurdity Copy Share Image
“I don’t care if it takes you five years of doing nothing at all; I don’t care if you decide after five… — Richard Yates 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 Copy Share Image
“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.” — Richard Yates Emotion 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 Sentimental 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 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
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates Emptiness Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It… — Richard Yates Parenting Copy Share Image
“I know I had it - I could feel it, the way you feel blood in your veins - and now I… — Richard Yates 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 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
“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
He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll… — Richard Yates 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
“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
