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Quotes from A Good School — Richard Yates

1926–1992 United States

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Could a person really be cynical about everything in the world and still expect to have friends?

A Good School (1978)

There was no readiness for soldiering in this truck, no stern and cocky welcoming of challenges. They sounded - oh, Mother of God - they sounded like children.

A Good School (1978)

There would probably always be kids like Grove in prep schools: you would find only irritation in trying to help them, or to like them, and you could probably never bring yourself to call them by their first names until ten years later, when they came back to visit the school with their wives.

A Good School (1978)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Yates (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.