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I love insult, it's always honest.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
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In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
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