Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
Joyce Carol OatesErotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
Tags: madness marilyn-monroe attractiveness sexism cynical-humor sexiness
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 OatesAs if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.
Joyce Carol OatesThere 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 OatesYet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
Joyce Carol OatesBullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.
Joyce Carol OatesHer problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
Joyce Carol OatesI'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
Joyce Carol OatesAn actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.
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