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“ ”... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
About Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.
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Additional quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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.
There is something female about being dead.
Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.