Top 49 Yglesias Quotes
#1. I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.
Alex Pareene
#2. Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias
#4. Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.
Helen Yglesias
#5. Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.
Rafael Yglesias
#6. It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#7. The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.
Rafael Yglesias
#8. In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.
Matthew Yglesias
#10. Gary was a righteous man, frank about his lusts, and they were the lusts of the righteous: for sugar and fat and the succour of a wife.
Rafael Yglesias
#11. Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.
Rafael Yglesias
#12. People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.
Rafael Yglesias
#13. Re: Central Park
But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.
Rafael Yglesias
#15. How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.
Rafael Yglesias
#16. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
Matthew Yglesias
#17. I'm willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye's Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born.
Rafael Yglesias
#18. After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.
Rafael Yglesias
#19. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.
Helen Yglesias
#20. And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live?
- Nothing but that he was afraid to die.
Rafael Yglesias
#21. Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.
Rafael Yglesias
#22. Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
Rafael Yglesias
#23. I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.
Matthew Yglesias
#24. There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.
Rafael Yglesias
#25. New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
Rafael Yglesias
#26. The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.
Matthew Yglesias
#27. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias
#28. To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#29. It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias
#30. I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
Matthew Yglesias
#31. Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.
Matthew Yglesias
#32. Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?
Helen Yglesias
#33. Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?
Rafael Yglesias
#34. I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
Matthew Yglesias
#35. I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
Rafael Yglesias
#36. Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions.
Rafael Yglesias
#37. Nothing on earth is more vicious than a disappointed American public.
Rafael Yglesias
#38. Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.
Rafael Yglesias
#39. For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now.
Rafael Yglesias
#40. I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.
Matthew Yglesias
#41. Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
Rafael Yglesias
#42. Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.
Rafael Yglesias
#46. Something about Christmas decorations inspired delinquency.
Rafael Yglesias
#47. A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
Matthew Yglesias
#48. You see, I'm not the hack. God is. And the Old Fart doesn't know how to write a conclusion that'll satisfy his audience. He leaves that to us, his lost children, doing his dirty work, inventing uplifting endings to erase his mistakes.
Rafael Yglesias
#49. Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
Helen Yglesias
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