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Joyce Carol Oates

"Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn't see but she could."

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"Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn't see but she could."

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Donna Grant

"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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Donna Grant

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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Donna Grant

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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Donna Grant

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

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Donna Grant

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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Donna Grant

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

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Donna Grant

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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Donna Grant

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."

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Donna Grant

"Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them."

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Donna Grant

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

Nothing

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."

Change

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

Self

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Joyce Carol Oates
"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."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed-to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!"

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Joyce Carol Oates
"The best part of being a nanny, Katya thought, was reading children's books aloud to enraptured children like Tricia, for no one had read such books aloud to her when she'd been a little girl. There hadn't been such books in the Spivak household on County Line Road, nor would there have been any time for such interludes."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."

Reflection

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