What did Richard Yates mean by: Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. - Richard Yates Author · USA Copy
+ Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Motivation, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 9, 2024, Richard Yates, Failure, Success, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ He had won but he didn’t feel like a winner. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Richard Yates, Winner, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ I’m only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Crush, Heart, Stories, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ If you haven’t written a novel by the time you’re forty you never will! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Forty, Novel, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ …his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Important, Irony, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ Anybody’s marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Benefit, Occasional, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
+ Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Yates, Hard Work, Medicine, 0 - Richard Yates Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France