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 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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates 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
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and… — Richard Yates Coffee 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 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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
