Richard Yates

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• “"I mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the psychiatric, psychoanalytical capital of the world."”

• “she talked less, or at least did less of the kind of talking whose only purpose was to fill silence”

• “And from this distance they all did look like kids - boys and girls from far and wide with their cheap hand luggage and their Army duffel bags, brave entertainers who might travel for years before it occurred to them, or to most of them, that they weren't going anywhere.”

• “One advantage of the very low lighting in this room, he'd decided, was that it could make almost any girl look like a million dollars.”

• “Aspirando et perseverando was and is the Avon Old Farms school motto”

• “At the time of [Richard Yates's] death the novel [Uncertain Times] was perhaps two-thirds finished: about 250 pages of narrative in various stages of revision.”

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