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

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


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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 own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.



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

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



Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?



if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.



He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.



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.

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.



No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.



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

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



Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.



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





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I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and



But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.



These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.



If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.



Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.



the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.



You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.

You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.



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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?



Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.



It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.




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