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Joyce Carol Oates
"Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
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Joyce Carol Oates (The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982)
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