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Seem Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing…
- Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my…
- The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but…
- The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret…
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