Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the re… - Joyce Carol Oates

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Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.

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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

"P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life. - Joyce Carol Oates

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