"I'm only interested in stories that are about……" — Richard Yates

"I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart."

— Richard Yates

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42 Quotes by Richard Yates

Richard Yates has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their…
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet…
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep…
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his…
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking…
Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to…
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the…

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More Crush Quotes

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt… — Joseph Addison
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with… — Justin Bieber
My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock. — Selma Blair
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. — Elizabeth Bowen
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing… — Julie Burchill
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade… — Steve Carell

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