# Quote — Richard Yates, A Special Providence

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

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [A Special Providence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence.md)
- Page: 243
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Yates#A_Special_Providence_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/sumbitch-wasnt-even

## More from this book

> Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?

p. 115 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/why-couldnt-she.md)

> After a second or two he thrust the muzzle forward and broke out the pane of glass, less because he knew it would make for a better aim than because it was what gunmen always did behind windows in movies.

p. 264 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/after-a-second.md)

> "I expect you'll miss your friends."
>
> "I don't really have any friends; not real ones. Anyway, we'll make new friends."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/i-expect-youll.md)