Love / Infidelity /
Friendship / Distrust / Jealousy / Loneliness:
The following quotes
illustrate the topic's ambiguity. Use these to establish the scope of your
topic--to begin to specify the subtopics that verbalize various differing
opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop a guide to your reading.
"Love does not
begin and end the way we think it does. Love is a battle, love
is war, love is
growing."
James Baldwin
"The course
of love never did run smooth." William Shakespeare
"The supreme
happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
Victor Hugo
"Trust men
and they will be true to you: treat them greatly and they will show
themselves
great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Jealousy,
that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."
Havelock Ellis
"Loneliness
seems to have become the Great American Disease."
John Corry
"A slight
touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our
affections for them from turning flat." Logan P. Smith
"Caresses,
expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections
as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will
die at the roots." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Affection,
like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like
looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like
enlarging monsters with a microscope." Leigh Hunt
"The moment
we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no
night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talk not of
wasted affection; affection never was wasted." Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Arendt, Hannah. On
Violence. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, 1970.
Barthelme, Donald. "The
Emerald." The Best American Short Stories1980. Ed. Stanley Elkin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1980. Pages 1-26.
Carver, Raymond. "So
Much Water, So Close to Home." Short Cuts.
New York: NY Simon and Schuster, 1997. Pages 1-26.
_ _ _ "Where I'm
Calling From." The Best American Short Stories 1983.
Ed. Anne Tyler. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.
_ _ _ "Will You Please
Be Quiet, Please?" Short Cuts.
New York: NY Simon and Schuster, 1997. Pages 27-53.
Cheever, John. "Torch
Song." Short Story Masterpieces. Ed. Robert
Warren
and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell Publishing,
1980. Pages
65-90.
Dickens, Charles. "City
of Churches." The Oxford Book of Essays. Ed.
John Gross.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pages
196-208.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
"Friendship." Essays and Lectures. Ed.Joel Porte.
New York, NY: Literary Classics of the United States of America,Inc.,
1983.
Pages 339-354.
_ _ _ . "Love." Essays
and Lectures. Ed.Joel Porte.
New York, NY: Literary Classics of the United States of America,
Inc.,
1983.
Pages 325-338.
Golding, William. Lord of
the Flies.
Hardwick, Elizabeth, "The
Bookseller." The Best American Short
Stories 1981.
Ed. Hortense Calisher. Boston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1981. Pages 129-149.
_ _ _ "The
Faithful." The Best American Short Stories 1980.
Ed. Stanley Elkin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1980. Pages 196-209.
Joyce, James. "The
Boarding House." Short Story Masterpieces. Ed. Robert
Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell
Publishing, 1980. Pages 230-245.
Lawrence, D. H. "The
Horse Dealer's Daughter." Short Story
Masterpieces.
Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New
York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1980. Pages 245-265.
Lewis, David. W. E. B.
DuBois: Biography of a Race. New York:Henry, Holt, and Co., 1993.
Lewis, Sinclair. "Virga
Vay and Alan Cedar." Short Story Masterpieces.
Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell
Publishing,
1980. Pages 265-275.
Mansfield, Katherine.
"Marriage a la Mode." Short Story Masterpieces.
Ed. Robert Warren and Albert Erskine. New York, NY: Dell
Publishing,
1980. Pages 275-285.
McCourt, Frank. Angela's
Ashes. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Munroe, Alice. "Carried
Away." The Best American Short Stories 1992.
Ed. Robert Stone. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
Pages 179-218.
_ _ _ "Meneseteuing."
The Best American Short Stories 1989.
Ed. Margaret Atwood. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company,1989.
Pages 200-221.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
and Civil Disobedience. New York:
New American Library, 1980.
Thurber, James. "My Own
Ten Rules for a Happy Marriage." The
Oxford Book
of Essays. Ed. John Gross. Oxford: Oxford
University Press,
1991. Pages 462-470.
Twain, Mark. The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. "Still of
Some Use." The Best American Short Stories 1981.
Ed. Hortense Calisher. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1981. Pages 312-316.
_ _ _ "Gesturing."
The Best American Short Stories 1980.
Ed. Stanley Elkin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Pages 409-420.
_ _ _ "Playing With
Dynamite." The Best American Short Stories 1993.
Ed. Louise Erdich. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Pages 1-15.
Wolff, Tobias.
"Smorgasbord." The Best American Short Stories 1988.
Ed. Mark Helprin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.
Pages 312-316.