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aunque si puedo aceptar la proposicion segun la cual la vida es una metafora del boxeo --en uno de esos combates que siguen y siguen, asalto tras asalto, jabs o golpes rapidos, golpes errados, enganches, ninguna certidumbre, de nuevo la campana y de nuevo tu y tu adversario, en pelea tan pareja que es imposible no ver que tu adversario eres tu: ?y por que esta lucha en una plataforma elevada y cerrada por cuerdas como un corral, bajo luces ..
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went out for sports as others did, in an affable herd.
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grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons--Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer, yet so exquisitely, one might mistake the experience for a kind of ecstasy.
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Las masas se venden por un salario, los capitalistas son unos hijos de puta que te seccionan la yugular, recogen tu sangre en frascos y la venden al mejor postor, la religion es el opio de las masas y las iglesias son empresas capitalistas organizadas para hacer dinero y asegurarse poder e influencia. Por supuesto, las leyes favorecen a los ricos y a los poderosos, el poder solo desea engendrar mas poder de la misma manera que el capiral so..
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For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!"
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But this controversy did not involve the corporal who refused to give thought to what his life had become as a case. God did not think of a man as a case. For a case is to be solved--and a man cannot be solved.
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He told Neal he was in poor condition these days but he swam better than Neal, who'd gained ten or fifteen pounds since his marriage, and Enid, falling behind the men, wondered how it felt to have inhabited your body, your very flesh, as a weapon - If you ever got over it, were able to forget. The quick swing of the arms, the power of the fists to hurt - did you ever forget? She wondered did her uncle see other people in opposition to him,..
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Asked by a journalist how he had felt after an unsuccessful election, Abraham Lincoln said, Like a little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark, he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.
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On the Decker bus she often gave up her seat to older passengers or to women with young children, she was nervously alert to the needs or near-needs of other people. It pleased and excited her to see the space she'd occupied taken, the emptiness where she had been so readily filled in.
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Now the broken-off parts of her life, the fragments, bits, puzzle pieces, began to fall into place, to assemble themselves, as invariably they do once we are under the enchantment of Death.
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If Hannah knew where he was! - frankly eyeing a hatcheck girl his faughter Geraldine's age, noting her legs in black patterned stockings, her feet in black stiletto-heeled shoes, feeling the first dim stirrings of desire so faint and so sad it was like hearing a telephone ringing and ringing in a distant room you couldn't hope to get to and if you did the call wouldn't be for you.
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The hat-check girl wore her hair in a schoolgirl pageboy so you were meant to think of Dorothy Collins - all innocence, wide-eyed and breathless - but this was mock-innocent and she knew her business, a narrow waist and shapely hips, lovely full breasts thrust out and upward inside the black satin bodice probably by one of those wired contraptions Howard Hughes had allegedly invented, the strapless brassiere a marvel of American know-how de..
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Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property."
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In slow drowning waves the knowledge washed over Cressida, her professor did not think that she was so special after all. He didn't know her father Zeno. Was that it?
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
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Her long periods of intense concentration began to be punctuated by bouts of directionless daydreaming, sudden explosions of feeling. At such times Shakespeare was too dangerous to be read closely--Hamlet whispered truths too cruel to be borne, every word in Lear hooked in flesh and could not be dislodged. As for Wilde, Hobbes, Schopenhauer . . . even cynicism, Marya saw, can't save you.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well."
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Much of the time he lay part-dressed on his bed, sipping gin, and thinking, and thinking, - though what it was, of which he thought, he seemed not to know.
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Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid.
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Well, no. Marianne thought there could be lots worse.
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For in America this season is decreed "family season". (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who don't have families!) Melancholy as Thanksgiving is, the Christmas-New year's season is far worse and lasts far longer, providing rich fund of opportunities for self-medicating, mental collapse, suicide and public mayhem with firearms. In fact it might be argued that the Christmas-New year's season which begins abruptly after Thanksgiving is..
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Freaky kids like us can't ever be normal- Tyler says smugly- Our generation is some new kind of "evolutionary development", my shrink says- "Normal" is just "average", not cool. My latest diagnosis is "A.P.M", Acute Premature Melancholia", usually an affliction of late middle age, they think is genetic since Ty Senoir has had it all his life, too. You look if you might be A.P.M, too, Sky: that kind of pissed-off mopey look in your face like..
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What was most striking about the portrait of Jane, Countess of Harrington was the aura of confidence it exuded - not merely the figure of the beautifully composed young noblewoman, her slender face seen just slightly in profile so that her elegantly long nose was outlined, but an air of ontological entitlement as different from M.R.'s sense of being in the world as if she and "Jane, Countess of Harrington" were of two distinct species."
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Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the home of one of them, for the premeditated purpose of "playing". A feature of contemporary American upscale suburban life in which "neighborhoods" have ceased to exist, and children no longer trail in and out of "neighbor childrens" houses or play in "backyards". In the absence of sidewalks in newer "gated" coummunities, children cannot "walk..
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fiction
literature
mystery
novels
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For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!
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and both men listened as if hearing it for the first time, as we so frequently listen, in such circumstances, to tales whose outcomes we already know, or have already been told us by our friends.
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How exhausted I am suddenly!--though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling--almost--exhilarated.
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My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author."
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It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly. She
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Her favorite foods made her gag, like old friends she hadn't seen in years turning up looking all wrong.
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Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.
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You have hardened your heart against your "American cousin." It was courageous in the memoir to state so clearly how you had to harden your heart against so much, to survive. Americans believe that suffering makes saints of us, which is a joke. Still I realize you have no time for me in your life now. There is no "purpose" to me. Even"
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because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts.
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feminism
feminist
women
women-s-rights
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Being a grand-kid, you can so easily regress. All the ages you ever were are all recalled by the grandparent in a shimmery love-haze, like those blurred faces on tv, in which identities have been disguised.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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For, in movie logic, aesthetics has the authority of ethics: to be less than beautiful is sad, but to be willfully less than beautiful is immoral.
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It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.
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Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again that tear you apart.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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Secrets of the adult universe, forbidden for children to know: how beauty and suffering are intertwined.
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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Popular! In America, what else matters?
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literature
popularity
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A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.
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foxfire
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A man is fearful of lonely in a woman
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