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1 " It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things? "
― Joyce Carol Oates , Expensive People (Wonderland Quartet, #2)
2 " He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul. "
3 " Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. "
4 " Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing? "
5 " Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it. "
6 " You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are! "
7 " When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie "
8 " But thinking it my duty to stretch the flayed skin of my childhood on some sort of skeleton of convention "
