Joyce Carol Oates quote: And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that ...

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

~ Joyce Carol Oates ~

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