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All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
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