Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.


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Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
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Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. I...
JOAN RIVERS
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
JOAN RIVERS
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
JOAN RIVERS
I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ...
JOAN RIVERS
I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
JOAN RIVERS
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the w...
JOAN RIVERS
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That...
JOAN RIVERS
Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
JOAN SMALLS
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it ...
JOAN RIVERS
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte...
JOAN BAEZ
We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
JOAN GREENWOOD
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, ...
JOAN JETT
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, t...
JOAN JETT
Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r...
JOAN CUSACK
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS
I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ...
JOAN BLADES
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
JOAN LARSEN
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organiz...
JOAN BAEZ
When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON
Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO