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  1. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;
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  2. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    First marriage, and nothing so sweet! You don't know it at the time.
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  3. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    Were you wounded when your marriage collapsed? When your love collapsed? Or does love never "collapse," only just fade gradually away?
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  4. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    Never can you climb over this wall, you're not strong enough; girls aren't strong enough; girls aren't big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you."
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  5. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    The fundamental truth of my life whether in fact it was truth or a burlesque of truth: when a man wants you, you're safe.
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  6. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    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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  7. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    unless it was enough for these worshipers to bask in the knowledge that, though invisible to them and in every way inaccessible to them, the swarthy handsome Ex-Athlete and the beautiful Blond Actress might at that very moment be coupling like Shiva and Shakti, unmaking and making the Universe?
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  8. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.
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  9. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play?
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  10. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.
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  11. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    What is "technique" but the absence of passion?
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  12. Joyce Carol Oates _ Blonde

    Men grow cold as girls grow oldAnd we all lose our charms in the end.How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!
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