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Richard Yates Quotes
10 of the best book quotes from Richard Yates
01
“You’re the most interesting person I’ve ever met.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Frank Wheeler
ᐧ
April Wheeler
characters
compliments
ᐧ
meeting
ᐧ
interesting
concepts
02
“Whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Frank Wheeler
character
moving forward
ᐧ
life
ᐧ
unapologetic
concepts
03
“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Narrator (Revolutionary Road)
character
comfort
ᐧ
time
ᐧ
measure
ᐧ
ability
concepts
04
“Don’t ‘moral’ and ‘conventional’ really mean the same thing?”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
April Wheeler
character
conventionality
ᐧ
the same thing
ᐧ
meaning
ᐧ
morals
concepts
05
“Nothing’s ever that black and white.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Frank Wheeler
character
not that simple
ᐧ
black and white
ᐧ
nothing
concepts
06
“Wouldn’t you like to be loved by me?”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
April Wheeler
character
love
ᐧ
questions
concepts
07
“Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
April Wheeler
character
own life
ᐧ
artists
ᐧ
writer
ᐧ
living life fully
concepts
08
“The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Frank Wheeler
character
who you were
ᐧ
important
ᐧ
to remember
concepts
09
“Oh, I’ve always known I had to be your conscience and your guts.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
April Wheeler
character
guilt trip
ᐧ
arguments
ᐧ
guts
ᐧ
conscience
concepts
10
“Even in those days she’d held herself poised for immediate flight; she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it (“Don’t talk to me that way, Frank, or I’m leaving. I mean it”) or the minute anything went wrong.”
Richard Yates
author
Revolutionary Road
book
Frank Wheeler
ᐧ
April Wheeler
characters
flight
ᐧ
to leave
ᐧ
take off
ᐧ
strained relationships
ᐧ
threat
ᐧ
going wrong
concepts
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Michelle Obama
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Atwood
Rachel Hollis
Shel Silverstein
compliments
meeting
interesting
Frank Wheeler
April Wheeler
moving forward
life
unapologetic
comfort
time
measure
ability
Narrator (Revolutionary Road)
conventionality
the same thing
meaning
morals
not that simple
black and white
nothing
love
questions
own life
artists
writer
living life fully
who you were
important
to remember
guilt trip
arguments
guts
conscience
flight
to leave
take off
strained relationships
threat
going wrong
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