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A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
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At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
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Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored or damned with condescending praise.
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She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
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Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
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Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
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Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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