Joyce Carol Oates quote: For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark ...

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

~ Joyce Carol Oates ~

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