# Quote — Richard Yates, A Special Providence

> "You make it sound so easy." But that was one of the wonderful things about Sterling Nelson: he could make any difficult thing sound easy, and the only other man she had ever known who could do that was Willard Slade. All the others, George, for example, had made easy things sound difficult.

- 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: 138
- 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/you-make-it-sound

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

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> 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)

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

p. 243 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence/sumbitch-wasnt-even.md)