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Blonde

Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates

Blonde is a bestselling 2000 historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award . Rocky Mountain News and Entertainment Weekly have listed Blonde as one of Joyce Carol Oates's best books. Oates has said that Blonde is one of the two books for which she thinks she will be remembered.

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“Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.”

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“Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.”

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“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”

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“For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.”

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“Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.”

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