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Jo Sinclair
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“The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its intolerable mockery of beauty.”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Seasons: Death and Transfiguration (1993 memoir), first lines
“Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York.”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anna Teller (1960), first line of part one
“Many of the passengers could not help staring at Anna Teller. It was mid-December of 1956; all the newspapers they had brought onboard were still headlining one story, and here was part of the story in the flesh.”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anna Teller (1960), first page
“All that summer, as no white people came to rent the empty, upstairs suites of the Valenti house or the Golden house, tension had mounted in the street. Only Negroes came. (first lines)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen to her," [he] said. "A voice like iron. That one will never rent or sell to them. They are more her enemy than ours, even. Remember...even an Italian has his Hitler." (chapter 3, p43)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[He] could not move for a while. When at last he went to put the last gate up over the door and to snap shut the locks, a confusion of walls and gates and locks swirled through his head. Don't make a wall in my head, he thought tremblingly. That's all I ask. Please! (chapter 6, p110)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a second of intense hurt, she remembered all the fires, all the joy of those yesterdays which had merged so quickly. There had never been a calendar to life; excitement and fun had been timeless. Every day had been the present, fast and dangerous, the never-ending moment of leadership. (chapter 8, p127)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She saw his dreamer eyes; the dream was love, togetherness, two people together. She saw his whole dreamer self, and she called his name. (p297)”
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“They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liz picked a stifling evening in late summer to describe love. She yanked the word from a misty, delicately poised niche in Catherine's mind and flung it down newly expressed. The brutish meaning turned real as the smell and touch, the sounds, out of one of the childhood memories always hiding at the back of Catherine's mind. ( first lines)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The same liquor, the same scar tissue, the same fear-sound of [his] cough flying into the Ballroom: for [her], everything had seemed reiteration out of the ghostly series of yesterdays. Only she was different. Everything seemed blurred and unformed wood, only she chiseled out into actuality, the need of body, the lips shaped to the sound of longing.( p261)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...only the screaming came out, no words, just the sounds of loneliness and fear (book 1 chapter 1)”
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“It was as if he had an insistence, too: never to see the actual Catherine, never to need the inner figure of shy and beautiful delicacy. (book 1 chapter 7)”
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“It was as if he insisted, time after time, that she could be only a body. Why couldn't he see her shy heart, her eager studying mind? Why couldn't her delicate ways of help flow gently into his way?-not the sickeningly sudden grab, the (book 1 chapter 9)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A beautiful thing happened...Her loneliness was gone. Even the night time was less piercing for the happiness of the day preceding it, the day that was so filled with a presence, a little living possession who changed excitingly from week to (book 2 chapter 3)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...again, it was the urgent, wholly understanding tones of love she thought she heard, even in the whisper. Her throat felt parched, as if she had sung along with one of her records for a long time. (book 2 chapter 5)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How fast the evening had passed, with its newnesses boxed one within the next like constantly opening flashes of excitement. (book 3 chapter 5)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the darkness, he found her and it was as if the discovery encompassed him at the same time. She was in a secret forest-place of night, where no pain could enter. His body, his lips and hands, made gleams of light by which she could read at last all the answers to hunger. (book 3 chapter 6)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like touching an old scar, she felt again the crushing sense of responsibility, the sensation of being mysteriously punished... (book 3 chapter 6)”
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“...How could anything as delicate as love turn into the harsh accusation of [his] eyes? (book 3 chapter 11)”
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“The evening became more and more tender, as if [she] were holding the glass bowl of the Ballroom between her palms and watching it fill slowly with all the nostalgia and sadness, the yearning prolonged embraces, of a farewell. (book 3 chapter 11)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)”
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“He began quietly to tell her the details of Kenny's letter, and as she listened she thought with a kind of tired and comfortable amusement that the ghosts were really catching up with her. Ralph, or her lie to herself, had kept them away for more than a year. But all ghosts had the right, sooner or later, to frighten the people they haunted. (book 5 chapter 2)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't I have a right to live?" she said. "Can't a woman live even if she is a mother?" (book 5 chapter 5)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[He] suddenly leaned and pounded the coffee table. "Must the pattern be so set?" he demanded with bitterness. "A generation doesn't have to repeat itself...leave your poor twisted childhood. End it-don't trap another child in it"...when they had gone, her terrified recognition of what he had said was still there. The Ballroom was icy with the truth of every word. (book 5 chapter 5)”
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“Even in the secrecy of his own mind, Jake called him "the doctor." He hated the word psychiatrist. He hated it even if Debby did say it was a beautiful word. (first lines, Chapter One)”
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“It was Saturday again. Today he was eager to be here. Already he shared with the walls of this office the intimacy of secrets released, the wonderful freedom of shame and pain eased, even the inch of secret, the first few stumbling steps of ease. (Chapter Three, p77)”
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“The big desk was somewhat like a bridge between the doctor and him; at one end the doctor sat, and here at this end he sat, waiting for the moment when he could take a few further awkward steps upon that bridge into understanding, into reasoning. (Chapter Three, p77)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The word Depression faded from the American air, but in her it would never fade completely, she knew that. (chapter Five, p177)”
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“His own suffering, preceding the similar experiences of his nephews, makes him unwilling to face the idea of progeny. He is afraid of the continued perpetuation of "wasteland," and yet he now tries courageously to discover the truth of that condition, the source of it, perhaps the cure.... (chapter Five, p194)”
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“The walls of Saturday moved in on him with a combined pressure of fear and relief, the walls of a confessional. And yet these walls were different, too, pressing as they did ever closer toward him. (Chapter Six, p195)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...Do you have anything definite on which to pin your dislike? Or is it a cloak for your dislike of someone else? Or perhaps yourself?" (Chapter Five, p159)”
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“You remember how that word echoed and echoed inside of you all the way home...All the way home, the word said itself in you like a squeezing fist. (Chapter Nine, p299)”
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“Obstacles which have kept him from complete participation have been dissolved. At this year's ceremony, he can recognize without bitterness what is there for him, as well as what can never be there. Recognizing the inadequacies, he knows he need not be hurt by them.... (Chapter Eleven, p334)”
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