# Quote — Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor

> "Yeah, well, you're right, but what the hell; there's nothing anybody can do about it. Besides, that's ancient history now. I don't even think about it much any more, from - you know - from day to day."
>
> "Good," she said. "It's always important to keep the day-to-day stuff separate from the ancient history, isn't it."

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [Cold Spring Harbor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor.md)
- Page: 125
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/yeah-well-youre

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> Sometimes the world was just too fucking much.

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> And he was afraid she might be taking this much too seriously, so he reached out to stroke or tousle her hair, but that didn't work because she'd just been to the hairdresser and didn't want to get it messed up.

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/and-he-was.md)

> One advantage of the very low lighting in this room, he'd decided, was that it could make almost any girl look like a million dollars.

p. 123 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor/one-advantage-of-the.md)