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  1. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    Especially she dreaded the isolation of the swimmer, amid propelled and splashing figures yet she was isolated, always one isolated in the water where thoughts await like froth on the surface of the water that smelled like chemicals.
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  2. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    What was most striking about the portrait of Jane, Countess of Harrington was the aura of confidence it exuded – not merely the figure of the beautifully composed young noblewoman, her slender face seen just slightly in profile so that her elegantly long nose was outlined, but an air of ontological entitlement as different from M.R.'s sense of being in the world as if she and "Jane, Countess of Harrington" were of two distinct species.
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  3. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.
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  4. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.
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  5. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
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  6. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone.Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.
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  7. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    ... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.
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  8. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
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  9. Joyce Carol Oates _ Mudwoman

    The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
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