Richard Yates

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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    Clearly, he was from the part of New York that you had to pass through on the train to Grand Central—the part where people hung bedding over their windowsills and leaned out on it all day in a trance of boredom, and where you got vistas of straight, deep streets, one after another, all alike in the clutter of their sidewalks and all swarming with gray boys at play in some desperate kind of ball game.
  • b6113302670has quoted6 years ago
    The crowd there were friends of habit rather than of choice,
  • b6113302670has quoted6 years ago
    rationed kindness the way he rationed water: we might cherish each drop out of all proportion to its worth, but we never got enough or anything like enough to slake our thirst.

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