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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.
         

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


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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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