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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates _ A Widow's Story
In our marriage it was our practice not to share anything that was upsetting, depressing, demoralizing, tedious-unless it was unavoidable. Because so much in a writer's life can be distressing-negative reviews, rejections by magazines, difficulties with editors, publishers, book designers-disappointment with one's own work, on a daily/hourly basis!-it seemed to me a very good idea to shield Ray from this side of my life as much as I could. For what is the purpose of sharing your misery with another person, except to make that person miserable, too?
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Joyce Carol Oates _ High Lonesome: Selected
Nothing is more lonely than fucking 'good works.
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Joyce Carol Oates _ DIS MEM BER and Other Stories
if a man hurts you, and you show that hurt, and your eyes lock with his, he will never forgive you. For always you will be the girl he has hurt, which means you are the girl he can always hurt again. Mr.
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
and much more interesting.
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Joyce Carol Oates _ DIS MEM BER and Other Stories
the mirror above the bureau-a flushed blurred face. I had learned to look quickly away from that face for so often I hated what I saw.
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In
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Joyce Carol Oates _ DIS MEM BER and Other Stories
Silence has gathered around me like a thick, viscous water filling in a muddy footprint. Early evening, swollen sky like an eye that
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.}
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT {variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city}
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Joyce Carol Oates _ The Falls
You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There
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