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Joyce Carol Oates

"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

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"Trust, but verify."

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"Know sincere well through the real acts of sincere and not just through its mere words and deceptive actions that end in deep regret before you give your true heart to sincere. So many people have trusted because of sincere but they only saw the mere word and image of sincere and not the real meaning and action of sincere!"

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"They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money."

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"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."
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"How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray-here? Is it possible that he won't be coming home with me in another day or two, as we'd planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It's like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it."
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"He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul."
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"You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal."
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"Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"It is the most horrific thought-my husband died among strangers."
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"The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!"
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"When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover."
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"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."
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