Hate Quote by Richard Yates

“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and…

— Richard Yates

“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and…

— Richard Yates

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

— Richard Yates

“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because…

— Richard Yates

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

— Richard Yates

“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of being whole.…

— Richard Yates

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

— Richard Yates

“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the grass rug…

— Richard Yates

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

— Richard Yates

“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread…

— Richard Yates

“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first…

— Richard Yates

“I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.”

— Richard Yates