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Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like mozart's 'requiem mass.' you know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. i didn't have that experience at all. i had one pratfall after another.

-Joyce Carol Oates

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Most People Think That A Widow Is

Joyce Carol Oates

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like mozart's 'requiem mass.' you know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. i didn't have that experience at all. i had one pratfall after another.

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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. when you have your own school, you have dignity. when you have your own country, you have dignity.when you have something of your own, you have dignity. but whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. that's ignorance.

Art has always been my salvation. and my gods are herman melville, emily dickinson, mozart. i believe in them with all my heart. and when mozart is playing in my room, i am in conjunction with something i can’t explain — i don’t need to. i know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear mozart. or if i walk in the woods and i see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. i can recollect it, i can notice it. i’m here to take note of. and that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

First thoughts are the everyday thoughts. everyone has those. second thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. people who enjoy thinking have those. third thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. they’re rare, and often troublesome. listening to them is part of witchcraft.

Marriage i think for women is the best of opiates. it kills the thoughts that think about the thoughts, it is the best of opiates. so said maria. but too long in solitude she'd dwelt, and too long her thoughts had felt their strength. so when the man drew near, out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. poor maria! better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, for now she's alone again and all in pain; she sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay to trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: it makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. vocals can be so many things, like, "hey, i'm michael jackson, and this is my iconic voice," or a choir of people sounding like mozart's requiem. mariah carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. it's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

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