Quotes by Richard Yates

Richard Yates

…his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Important

Irony

Jobs

And do you know a funny thing? I’m almost fifty years old and I’ve never understood anything in my whole life.

Fifty

Funny Things

Years

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

Benefits

Might

Occasional

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn’t much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

Different

Dying

Might

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

Hard Work

Medicine

Men

He had won but he didn’t feel like a winner.

Feels

Winner

Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Emptiness

People

Real

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

Lying

Simple

Tragedy

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

Failure

New Years Resolution

Success

If you haven’t written a novel by the time you’re forty you never will!

Forty

Havens

Novel

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Alive

Aunt

Benefits

Comfort

Culture

Different

Dying

Emptiness

Endless

Failure

Feels

Fields

Fifty

Forty

Funny Things

Goal

Grief

Hair

Hard Work

Havens

Honesty

Important

Irony

Jobs

Knowing

Knows

Lying

Medicine

Men

Might

New Years Resolution

Nice

Night

Novel

Occasional

Parent

People

Real

Running

Say Anything

Silence

Simple

Sorry

Source

Success

Sweet

Thinking

Tragedy

Two

Watches

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Quotes by Richard Yates

Richard Yates

…his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

And do you know a funny thing? I’m almost fifty years old and I’ve never understood anything in my whole life.

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

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn’t much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

He had won but he didn’t feel like a winner.

Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

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

If you haven’t written a novel by the time you’re forty you never will!

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