"You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying…" — Richard Yates

"You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture."

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

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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,… — Marcus Aurelius
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up… — Michele Bachmann
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me… — James A. Baldwin
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful… — Travis Barker
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then… — Roseanne Barr
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr

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