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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.
         

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.


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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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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.



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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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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.



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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.



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



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I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.



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