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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.
         

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.


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I never change, I simply become more myself.



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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.



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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.



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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.



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