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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
No one would be able to name what had happened or would wish to name it. Rape was a word that came not be spoken at High Point Farm.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Out of obscurity I came. To obscurity I can return.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again that tear you apart.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Well, no. Marianne thought there could be lots worse.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there."
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
It struck her to the heart, left her weak, disoriented, that, to Michael Mulvaney, after all, his family wasn't quite enough.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
During these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself upright in midfall and continued running {dogs whimpering, yapping hysterically in her wake, cats scattering wide-eyed and plume-tailed} before the telephone ceased it's querulous ringing--though frequently she was greeted with nothing more than a derisive dial tone, in any case.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing-first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it-and, oh dear, there's just the one way out.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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We Were the Mulvaneys
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.
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