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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
         

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.


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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.



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

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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See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be



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