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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 21a5595 | If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 76bc67b | It is perhaps not commonly known that a Negro heavyweight championship title existed from 1902 to 1932 when many white champions (including John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jack Dempsey) refused to fight blacks. (In 1925 Dempsey pointedly refused to meet Harry Willis - "The Black Menace" - in a fight urged upon him by many observers.) One wonders: who were the true world's champions in those years? And of what value are historical records wh.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 756ea34 | Considered in the abstract the boxing ring is an altar of sorts, one of those legendary spaces where the laws of a nation are suspended: inside the ropes, during an officially regulated three-minute round, a man may be killed at his opponents hands but he cannot be legally murdered. Boxing inhabits a sacred space predating civilization; or, to use D.H. Lawrence's phrase, before God was love. If it suggests a savage ceremony or a rite of ato.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9d587c1 | stroke recently. A friend at least a decade | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 540e3e8 | Mom's new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom's boss at the Buick dealership where she'd worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom's boss--the way he spoke to her, not exactly giving orders, never forgetting to say Please but in a tone of voice that meant there was no negotiating. Of | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cc8c87c | Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels--alone. AT | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| a999d86 | This web of intricate connections | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 53bbd34 | Yet The Falls exerted its malevolent spell, that never weakened. If you grew up in the Niagara region, you knew. Adolescence was the dangerous time. Most Niagara natives kept their distance from The Falls, so they were immune. But if you drifted too near, even out of intellectual curiosity, you were in danger: beginning to think thoughts unnatural to your personality as if the thunderous waters were thinking for you, depriving you of your w.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 917b425 | He was sentimental about women. It infuriated him that any man, let alone a minister, could behave so selfishly on his honeymoon. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f86620e | But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this?" She waited. God declined to reply. How" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cbfaccc | A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| bef437c | didn't thank didn't wave goodbye didn't flutter the air with kisses a mound of gifts unwrapped bed unmade no appetite always elsewhere though it was raining elsewhere though strangers peopled the streets though we at home slaved and baked and wept and hung ornaments and perfumed the dark did he marvel did he thank was he grateful did he know was he human was he there always elsewhere: didn't thank didn't kiss toothbrush stiffened with unuse.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9977a3d | The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 4ec1337 | Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. | Alan Moore | ||
| 8a4054b | I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen. | Alan Moore | ||
| 47f663a | Burnaby bobbed to the surface of the water after a few minutes, seemingly "unscathed" as journalists would report. A "universal cheer" went up as the daredevil with the shaved, painted head swam toward the base of Luna Island; would-be rescuers reached out for him even as, when Burnaby was less than ten feet from shore, a powerful undertow sucked him down into the swift, green-tinged water. Eyewitnesses would claim that, as he was sucked do.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0bcfe45 | How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies and textbooks! Of | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 556b51d | scintillant, | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f6d3375 | papa ci amava. Ci ama. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f2cdd2c | no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 5fe132b | Yet within seconds she summoned her steely will, this will that so impressed Dirk Burnaby, for he'd never encountered anything like it in his life, establishing where she was, and why. The bad dream was outside her, in the world. She must conquer it there or nowhere. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 6664aa3 | unyielding--Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see--she has a former husband very jealous of her--he is her "ex" but he is" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| e657d44 | Ever rising like the souls of the damned seeking salvation," Ariah said to Dirk Burnaby, in one of her rare moments of noticing him. Her fixed, wistful smile made him shudder.)" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 06cecaa | we're sick of ourselves. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9a77a70 | You wear out. You see too much. Every breath hurts. The | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 86cc3c1 | Ariah struck suddenly at her face with both fists. She wanted to pummel, blacken her eyes that had seen too much. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 16cb496 | Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. --SCHOPENHAUER The | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 86e6a23 | When he was three years old Jackie ran into the house crying. I asked, "What's happened? What's wrong?" He showed me his bleeding hand - the palm of his hand had been scraped. "How did you do that? It isn't bad! Did you hurt it on something dirty?" I patted the blood away with a tissue. He stopped crying; he pressed against me with his wet face. My husband said, coming into the kitchen, "Let's see what happened -" He took Jackie's hand and .. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 27ee765 | She was standing with her thin arms lifted in a pose of crucifixion as the white satin gown with its myriad pearl buttons, tucks and pleats and ingenious lace trim, was fitted onto her like an exquisite straitjacket. Mrs. Littrell had insisted upon the corset, Ariah could scarcely breathe. I take thee Gilbert. My lawfully wedded husband. A sneeze would have shattered the corset, and the wedding. At police headquarters, the bride of the "fal.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| a5f3f09 | You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 750d777 | You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8abcb5f | REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city) | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 67de2de | It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 72473a4 | Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 00aacb7 | He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 73e3773 | One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| b37a5c5 | Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 37c2feb | the mirror above the bureau--a flushed blurred face. I had learned to look quickly away from that face for so often I hated what I saw. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 984f516 | and much more interesting. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| de69392 | if a man hurts you, and you show that hurt, and your eyes lock with his, he will never forgive you. For always you will be the girl he has hurt, which means you are the girl he can always hurt again. Mr. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| bc1714f | Nothing is more lonely than fucking 'good works. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| d224864 | Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates | Larry Smith | ||
| b95b8a4 | Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| e5b61d4 | Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth increased her strength. | Cynthia Voigt |