Quotes From "Cold Spring Harbor" By Richard Yates

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much...
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Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. Richard Yates
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Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times. Richard Yates
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I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense. Richard Yates