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For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

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The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

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Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Born: June 16, 1938 (age 86)
Bio: Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
Known for:
  1. The Accursed (2013)
  2. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1979)
  3. Blonde (2000)
  4. The Falls (2004)
  5. Bellefleur (1980)
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