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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
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For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.
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Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
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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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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
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You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.
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Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.
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After love a formal feeling comes.
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
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