Jo Sinclair Quotes
1913–1995 United States
Ruth Seid (July 1, 1913 – April 4, 1995) was a novelist who wrote under the pen name Jo Sinclair. She was Jewish, lesbian, and lived in the USA.
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The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its intolerable mockery of beauty.
Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York.
Anna Teller (1960)
The word Depression faded from the American air, but in her it would never fade completely, she knew that. (chapter Five, p177)
Wasteland (1948)
They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)
The Changelings (1955)
How fast the evening had passed, with its newnesses boxed one within the next like constantly opening flashes of excitement. (book 3 chapter 5)
Sing at My Wake (1951)
It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)
Sing at My Wake (1951)
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.
Anna Teller (1960)
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)
Wasteland (1948)
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)
The Changelings (1955)
"...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)
Wasteland (1948)
Like touching an old scar, she felt again the crushing sense of responsibility, the sensation of being mysteriously punished... (book 3 chapter 6)
Sing at My Wake (1951)