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• One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• Things could be a lot worse. -- Joyce Carol Oate
• Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me. -- Joyce Carol Oate
• Before falling in love, I was defined. Now I am undefined, weeds are growing in between my ribs.
  -- Joyce Carol Oate...
• When the lights are out, no one can see you hip-check Quaker Oates.
• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -- Carol Burne
• Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.
• Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love
  Husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on....