The experience is there, the reality is there, but how to get at it? Everything I type turns into a lie simply because it is not the truth.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and...

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