"Even if I seemed to remember, I could……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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