The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.”
“Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!”
“... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.”
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"-he might become one one day!”
“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.”
“No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.”
“For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?”
“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.”
“The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.”
“It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the philosophical anarchists were most convincing: society would fragmentise into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial individuals, requiring no police, no army, no guardians of morality, and no government. The old Deity being dead and dethroned, Humankind would come at last into power.”
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revolution, books-reading, children, family, innocence, lifestyle-change, truth, artistic-endeavour, poverty, gossip, politics-insanity
