P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.
Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
Joyce Carol OatesIn that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night--but even as you recall it, it begins to fade.
Joyce Carol OatesIt simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.
Joyce Carol OatesWe are beasts and this is our consolation.
Joyce Carol OatesI feel very transparent in myself. I’m more of an observer. I’m interested in what’s going on. I’m not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people — but when I’m not with them I don’t have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water.
Joyce Carol OatesStichwörter: personality
And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
Joyce Carol OatesHer visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.
Joyce Carol OatesStichwörter: family
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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
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