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Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.”

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Joyce Carol Oates is a renowned American author born on June 16, 1938. Her works span various literary forms such as novels, poetry, and drama, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound thematic explorations. more

“It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.”

Voice Forget Growing Subjects Calling Guilt All Time Links Survived Betrayed Taboo Forget Me Incredulity

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.”

Knows Stories Dog Forks

Author:Mark Haddon

“The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.”

Men Trying Sex Mystery Female Depth Fathom

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?”

Ifs Lying Language Cases Instruments Trusted

Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

“Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.”

Behinds Imagine Impossible Our Love Trails Observing

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Acting is the loneliest profession I know.”

Knows Acting Profession

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.”

World Ordinary Madness Mere Revenge Sanity Gifted

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.”

Ifs Light Darkness Strange

Book:We Were the Mulvaneys

Source: We Were the Mulvaneys

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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