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Richard Yates è stato uno scrittore, giornalista e sceneggiatore statunitense, autore di romanzi e racconti. Ha descritto la vita della classe media statunitense della metà del XX secolo, venendo spesso accostato sotto il profilo artistico ad autori come J.D. Salinger e John Cheever.



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✵ 3. Febbraio 1926 – 7. Novembre 1992

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Richard Yates Frasi e Citazioni

“A me pare che un uomo che permette al suo consulente matrimoniale di prendere decisioni al posto suo non è…be', non è un uomo vero”

Richard Yates libro Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

“Oh, gig, capisco. Spazi pubblicitari. E che rivista è?"
"L'American Scientist".
"Sta scherzando? Be', tanto di cappello. Pubblicano materiale sofisticato. Se lei capisce quella roba dev'essere…"
"Non la capisco. La vendo e basta".
"Come fa a vendere qualcosa che non capisce?"
"Non è quello che fanno gli psichiatri?”

Richard Yates libro Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

Richard Yates: Frasi in inglese

“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“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.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“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.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“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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Richard Yates

“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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Richard Yates libro The Easter Parade

Origine: The Easter Parade

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“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?”

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Richard Yates

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”

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Richard Yates libro Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Origine: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”

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Richard Yates libro Young Hearts Crying

Origine: Young Hearts Crying

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

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Richard Yates libro Cold Spring Harbor

Origine: Cold Spring Harbor

“Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”

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“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

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Richard Yates libro Revolutionary Road

Origine: Revolutionary Road

“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.”

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Richard Yates A Good School

Origine: Novels, A Good School (1978), p.165 (Ch.7)

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