"if you wanted to do something absolutely honest,……" — Richard Yates
"if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone."
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42 Quotes by Richard Yates
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It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their…
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You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet…
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He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep…
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It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his…
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If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
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Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
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Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking…
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Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
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I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
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He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.
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He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to…
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God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
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