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Joyce Carol Oates

"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

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"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it."

Observation

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."

Growth

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."

Boxing

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Joyce Carol Oates
"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."

Boxing

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

Secrets

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Joyce Carol Oates
"A daydreamer is prepared for most things."

Creativity

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Joyce Carol Oates
"A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity."

Motivation

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Nor do I like being told upsetting news-unless there is a good reason. I can't help but feel that there is an element of cruelty, if not sadism, in friends telling one another upsetting things for no reason except to observe their reactions."

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Aberjhani

"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

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Aberjhani

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

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Aberjhani

"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."

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Aberjhani

"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."

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Aberjhani

"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."

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Aberjhani

"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."

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Aberjhani

"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."

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Aberjhani

"I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them."

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Aberjhani

"I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."

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Aberjhani

"Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."

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