Disturbing the Peace Quotes

“A me pare che un uomo che permette al suo consulente matrimoniale di prendere decisioni al posto suo non è…be', non è un uomo vero”
― Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace

“How could any healthy girl be expected to care for a mentally unbalanced man?”
― Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace

“Appalled at his own voice, he wondered why he couldn’t have said he was a social worker or a hospital executive. Would the kids have cared? Why was he spilling his guts instead? Did he think it might make him more interesting in Epstein’s eyes? But what was “interesting” about having been a mental patient? “—anyway, I was locked up there,” he concluded, and he wondered if Pamela and the others were embarrassed for him.”
― Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace: A Novel

“he wanted to discuss his strange compulsion to let people know the worst about himself—this confusion of what was weak and ugly in himself with what was “interesting”
― Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace: A Novel

“Oh, gig, capisco. Spazi pubblicitari. E che rivista è?"
"L'American Scientist".
"Sta scherzando? Be', tanto di cappello. Pubblicano materiale sofisticato. Se lei capisce quella roba dev'essere…"
"Non la capisco. La vendo e basta".
"Come fa a vendere qualcosa che non capisce?"
"Non è quello che fanno gli psichiatri?”
― Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace