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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card_and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card_and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

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