"What madness! Yet she would do it, if……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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