# Quote — Richard Yates, A Special Providence

> "Okay, kid," Walker said, "This is it."
>
> And it was the absurdity of the phrase - nobody said "This is it" except in the movies, unless they were phoney bastards like Loomis - that roused Prentice to his first real anger of the morning. He wanted to smash and break the head of anyone stupid enough to say a thing like that; he wanted to kill all the posturing fraudulence in the world, and it was all here before him in this big, dumb, bobbing face.

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [A Special Providence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/okay-kid-walker

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> Sumbitch wasn't even needed, that's the funny part; just some eager-beaver bastard couldn't mind his own business.

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