Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. (Joyce Carol Oates)

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Joyce Carol Oates

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