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• Things could be a lot worse. -- Joyce Carol Oate
• Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• Before falling in love, I was defined. Now I am undefined, weeds are growing in between my ribs.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• Hey, Quaker Oates...make me some oatmeal, I'm hungry.
• Kirk: "I did what you wanted. I stayed away. Why didn't you tell him?
  Carol: "How can you ask me that? Were we together?...
• The consciousness of clean linen is in and of itself a source of moral strength only second to that of a clean conscience.
  A well-ironed collar, or a fresh glove, has carried many a man through the emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him....
• Today, a young man tripping on LSD realized that all matter is merely energy condensed through a slow vibratio
  we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream, and we are all our own imagination....