How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?
A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer. How one funny guy became three.
No one describes the grind and malice of marriage better than Yates, but what this novel uniquely touches upon is how damaged expectations for involvement in society in a loosely revolutionary sense can be entwined with how a wife views her husband’s integrity. There is sexual infidelity in this novel, but that act is of no consequence compared to the betrayal April Wheeler experiences when her husband Frank is reluctant to break out of their comfortable middle-class existence to make a go of it in Paris. Presented as a chatty suburban novel, this novel is as tightly bound as a steel cable.
Selma Dabbagh on Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Selma Dabbagh’s top 10 stories of reluctant revolutionaries | Books | guardian.co.uk (via arwensabendstern)
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison (from Song of Solomon)
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“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
- Arthur Miller
Don’t forget that all blunders - yours and mine - are stupid after they are made. At the time they may grow out of pity, generosity, sympathy, understanding. What we term stupid at the last may have been a beautiful gesture at the first.
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian HellmanGod forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
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