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Garrison Keillor
“It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”
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Richard Yates
“I want to retain my own identity. Therefore the thing I’m most anxious to avoid is any kind of work that can be considered ‘interesting’ in its own right. I want something that can’t possibly touch me. I want some big, swollen corporation that’s been bumbling along making money in its sleep for a hundred years, where they have to hire eight guys for every one job because none of them can be expected to care about whatever boring thing it is that they are supposed to be doing. I want to go into that kind of place and say, Look. You can have my body and my nice college-boy smile for so many hours a day, in exchange for so many dollars, and beyond that we’ll leave each other strictly alone.”
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates
“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Garrison Keillor
“Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.”
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