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Richard Yates war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er machte vor allem durch seinen 1961 veröffentlichten Debütroman Revolutionary Road und den Roman The Easter Parade aus dem Jahr 1976 auf sich aufmerksam. Trotz der Wertschätzung vieler Autorenkollegen geriet er mit zunehmendem Alter in Vergessenheit. Nach zwei gescheiterten Ehen lebte er die letzten Jahre einsam und widmete sich ausschließlich der Schriftstellerei. Erst nach seinem Tod wurde sein Werk neu entdeckt und in seiner Bedeutung für die moderne amerikanische Literatur anerkannt. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Februar 1926 – 7. November 1992
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“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”

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Richard Yates buch Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates buch Revolutionary Road

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates buch Revolutionary Road

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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“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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“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 buch The Easter Parade

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates buch Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates buch Revolutionary Road

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

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Richard Yates buch Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Quelle: 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 buch Young Hearts Crying

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“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 buch Cold Spring Harbor

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“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 buch Revolutionary Road

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“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

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

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