Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

Joyce Carol Oates

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Erotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

Joyce Carol Oates

Tags: madness marilyn-monroe attractiveness sexism cynical-humor sexiness



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I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.

Joyce Carol Oates


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As if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.

Joyce Carol Oates


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There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Joyce Carol Oates


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I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Joyce Carol Oates


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An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Joyce Carol Oates


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