# Quote — Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

> 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.

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [Eleven Kinds of Loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness.md)
- Page: 40
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/like-frustrated-suburban

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

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> 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.

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