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  1. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The
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  2. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    You may put this in your interview, Miss Fife, that Robert Frost believes in civilization-which is to say the Caucasian civilization." "But,
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  3. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane-he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The
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  4. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    How bizarre it seems to us, Hudson had been looking for a route to the Pacific Ocean, as his predecessor Christopher Columbus had been looking for a route to the East Indies . . . I thought The routes we think we are taking are not the routes we will take. The routes that take us. I
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  5. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness.
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  6. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    It was remarkable to Julia-{it did not hurt or offend her, but only amused her}-how Ryan's family managed to take photographs or videos of themselves that excluded her.
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  7. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    powerful blow from a practiced boxer can stop an opponent's heart, it is said. It's a cruel blow but it can be thrown easily if you have the strength and the skill and the will to do such lethal hurt, and if your opponent has no skills of self-defense. Carefully
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  8. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    My crappy-kid's life. It was mostly a shitty life wasn't it, OK but I miss it.
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  9. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.
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  10. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A
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  11. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'-the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls."
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  12. Joyce Carol Oates _ Lovely, Dark, Deep

    You can think of your life as the mistakes you made that catch up with you finally.
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