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Quotes from Eleven Kinds of Loneliness — Richard Yates

1926–1992 United States

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Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

Being told he was right was always a tonic to Ken

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

Then she asked me if I wanted to know something, and without waiting to find out whether I did or not, she told me.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

But late that night, as Irving Berlin himself might say, something kind of wonderful happened. I took that little bastard of a story and I built the hell out of it.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

there is an automatic pleasure in watching a thing done well.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

Then they came out, Finney wearing the foolish smile you sometimes see in the crowds that gape at street accidents

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

"Where are the windows?" he demanded, spreading his hands. "That's the question. Where does the light come in?"

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

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