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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
         

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.


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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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