# Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness

## Quotes

> Then she asked me if I wanted to know something, and without waiting to find out whether I did or not, she told me.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/then-she-asked.md)

> Being told he was right was always a tonic to Ken

p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/being-told-he-was.md)

> But late that night, as Irving Berlin himself might say, something kind of wonderful happened. I took that little bastard of a story and I built the hell out of it.

p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/but-late-that.md)

> there is an automatic pleasure in watching a thing done well.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/there-is-an-automatic.md)

> Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/like-frustrated-suburban.md)

> Then they came out, Finney wearing the foolish smile you sometimes see in the crowds that gape at street accidents

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/then-they-came.md)

> "Where are the windows?" he demanded, spreading his hands. "That's the question. Where does the light come in?"

p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/where-are-the.md)