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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.
         

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.


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